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TOPICS AND QUESTIONS %^ 

ON 

AMERICAN HISTORY 

AND 

CIVICS 



BY 

GEOEGE D. EOBINS 

THE HILL SCHOOL, POTT8TOWN, PA. 



CLEVELAND, OHIO 

1922 



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TOPICS AND QUESTIONS 

ON 

AMERICAN HISTORY 

AND 

CIVICS 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART I —AMERICAN HISTORY 

QUESTIONS 

1. Discovery 1- 5 

Trade Routes — Columbus' Voyages — America. 

2. Exploration 6- 10 

Spanish — French — English. 

3. Settlement 11- 30 

General Causes — Unsuccessful Attempts — First 
Permanent Colonies — French, Spanish and English 
Settlements — European Colonization — Compari- 
sons. 

4. Early Colonial History 31-100 

Virginia — Massachusetts — Rhode Island — Connecti- 
cut — General New England History — Comparisons 
of Massachusetts and Virginia — Maryland — New 
York — Pennsylvania — New Jersey — South Caro- 
lina — Georgia — First Settlements — Migrations — 
Government — Society — Religion — Industry. 

5. Intercolonial Wars 101-110 

Importance — Causes — Events — Results. 

6. Causes of Revolution 111-130 

Withdrawal of French — General Causes — Trade 
Acts — Oppressive Acts — Interference with Rights. 

7. Revolutionary War 131-150 

Campaigns — Treaty — Congresses — Declaration of 
Independence — Foreign Aid — Tories — Advantages 
to Colonies. 

8. Critical Period 151-170 

General — Articles of Confederation — Ordinance 
of 1787 — Constitutional Convention — Ratification. 

9. The Constitution 171-225 

Powers delegated to Federal Government — Limi- 
tations on States — Departments — Election of Pres- 
ident — Powers and Duties — Cabinet — Legislative 
Power of President — Election of Members of Con- 
gress — Powers — Election of Senators — Powers — 
Speaker of House and President of Senate — Pas- 
sage of Bill through Congress — Jurisdiction of 
Federal Courts — Election and Removal of Judges 
— Impeachment — Amendment of Constitution, 
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10. Federalists and Democrat-Republicans. 

(1) Washington's Administration 226-236 

Character of Government — Hamilton — Genet 
Mission — Political Parties — Whiskey Rebel- 
lion — Financial Policy. 

(2) John Adams' Administration 237-242 

Alien and Sedition Acts — Virginia and Ken- 
tucky Resolutions — Downfall of Federalists. 

(3) Jefferson's Administration 243-250 

Principles — Events — Purchase of Louisiana 
— Napoleonic Wars. 

11. The War of 1812 251-260 

Causes — Events — Results. 

12. The Era of Good Feeling 261-270 

Monroe Doctrine — Election of 1824 — Internal Im- 
provements — Work of John Marshall. 

13. Democrats and Whigs, 1828-1850. 

(1) Andrew Jackson's Administration 271-282 

Spoils System — National Bank — Nullifica- 
tion. 

(2) Harrison and Tyler — The Mexican War 283-290 

14. Slavery and Secession 291-330 

Missouri Compromise — Abolition Movement — Wil- 
mot Proviso — Compromise of 1850 — Kansas-Ne- 
braska Act — Dred Scott Decision — Fugitive Slave 
Law — Republican Party — States Rights — Nullifica- 
tion and Secession. 

15. The Civil War 331-350 

Causes — Economic Conditions — Strategic Prob- 
lems — Financial Problems — Campaigns — Relations 
with England — The Navy — Emancipation. 

16. Reconstruction 351-375 

Johnson and Reconstruction — Impeachment of 
Johnson — Fifteenth Amendment — Grant as Presi- 
dent — Geneva Arbitration — Alabama Claims — Re- 
sumption of Specie Payments — The Hayes-Tilden 
Controversy — Electoral Commission of 1877. 

17. From Cleveland to Wilson 376-395 

Legislation — Labor Troubles — Events — Spanish- 
American War — Imperialism — Roosevelt's Doc- 
trines and Reforms — Panama Canal — Trusts — The 
World War — The League of Nations. 

18. Twentieth Century Problems 396-430 

Immigration — Civil Service Reform — Free Silver 
— Railroads — Tariff — World Power — Colonial Gov- 
ernment — International Peace — Internal Growth 
— Foreign Policy — Income Tax — Prohibition — Fed- 
eral Reserve Bank. 



19. Miscellaneous Questions 431-510 

Colonies — Revolution — Documents — Campaigns — 
Definitions — Statesmen and Policies — Terms — Im- 
portant Topics — Legislation — Treaties — Presidents 
— Wars — Secretaries of State — Foreign Aid in 
Wars — Contributions of the West — Aids to Dem- 
ocracy — Federal Departments — Important Admin- 
istrations — Historians — Inventors — Federal De- 
partments — Eeforms. 

20. Biographies 510-560 

Roger Williams, Franklin, Washington, Hamilton, 
Jefferson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Douglas, Lin- 
coln, Cleveland, Eoosevelt. 

Services of Selected Persons: Explorers — Colo- 
nial Heroes — Statesmen — Inventors — Presidential 
Nominees — Soldiers — Sailors — Educators — Women. 

21. Map Questions 561-600 

Explorations — Colonial Grants — Additions to Ter- 
ritory — Military Campaigns — Boundaries — Routes 
— Important Places. 

22. Territorial Growth 601-625 

Original Boundaries — Purchases — Additions in Va- 
rious Periods — Northwest Territory — Texas — Cali- 
fornia — Oregon — Mexican Cession — Gadsden Pur- 
chase — Alaska — Spanish War — Outlying Posses- 
sions — Periods of Western Migration — Public 
Domain — Canal Zone — Danish West Indies — Ha- 
waii — Yap. 

23. Foreign Relations 626-655 

Early Policy — Relations with France — Disputes 
with Great Britain — Monroe Doctrine, Origin and 
Development — Arbitration — Treaties — Cuban Af- 
fairs — Russia — World Power — Eastern Questions — 
Latin- America — Germany — Mexico. 

24. Political Parties 656-675 

Federalists — Policies and Downfall — Party Poli- 
cies — Influence of the West — Whig Party, Leaders 
and Principles — Political Parties and Slavery — Re- 
publicans — Populists — Democrats. 

25. Elections 676-690 

Disputed Elections — Elections of 1800—1824—1844 
—1860— 1876— 1896— 1900— Accounts of Special 
Campaigns, Candidates and Issues. 

26. Economic Questions 691-710 

Commercial Crises — Panics — Banking Systems — 
Labor Unions — Resumption of Specie Payment — 
Tariff — Income Tax — Inventions — Transportation : 
Canals — Railroads — Merchant Marine — Manufac- 
turing — Foreign Commerce. 



27. Supreme Court Decisions 711-715 

Functions of Court — Famous Decisions — Dred 
Scott Case — Political Opposition to Supreme Court 
— Northern Securities Case. 



PART II— CIVICS. 

9. The Constitution 171-225 

Federal Government — States — Departments — Presi- 
dent — Cabinet — Congress — Senators — Representa- 
tives — Courts — Impeachments — Amendments. 

18. Twentieth Century Problems 396-430 

Immigration — Civil Service — Railroads — Income 
Tax — Prohibition. 

19. Miscellaneous Questions 431-510 

434—436—438—442—444—454—481—486—489—490 
—491—492—502—503—504—505—509. 

24. Political Parties 656-675 

Federalists — Whigs — Republicans — D emocrats 
— Populists — Policies — Platforms. 

28. General Questions 716-800 

Democracy a Growth — Republics — Preamble of 
Constitution — Rights of States — Individual Rights 
— Tariff — Income Tax — Direct and Indirect Taxa- 
tion — Treaty Making — Arbitration — Bill of Rights 
— Amendments — Proposed Changes — Presidents vs. 
Governors — Speaker of House — Duties of Con- 
gress — Committee System — Lawmaking — Initia- 
tive, Referendum and Recall — Interstate Commerce 
Commission — Executive Reforms — Powers of Su- 
preme Court — Citizenship — Dependencies — Natu- 
ralization — Political Parties — Territorial Govern- 
ment — Admission of States — Problems of State 
Governments — Types of Local Government — State 
Government — Individual Rights — Community Du- 
ties of Citizens — Local Problems — Americanization 
— City Government — Education — Roads — Restric- 
tion of Suffrage— State Constabulary — Child Labor. 



PREFACE. 

According to statistics of examining" boards, history is one 
of the most difficult subjects in which to prepare students for 
examination. 

In some subjects a standard text may provide adequate prep- 
aration ; but the student in history is appalled by the vast scope 
and innumerable relations of the subject. No one text can con- 
tain it all. Hence the desirability of suggesting to the student 
by means of widely selected questions as many aspects of the 
subject as possible. In this way his thoughts may be directed 
into new channels and valuable and suggestive relations may 
be discovered. 

This small volume of questions is submitted to the public in 
the hope that it may serve to make the study of American His- 
tory and Civics more stimulating and interesting as well as to 
deprive examinations of their peculiar terror. 

The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. George D. Kobins. 



PART L— AMERICAN HISTORY. 



1. DISCOVERY. 



1. Discuss the commercial situation in Europe in the latter half 
of the fifteenth century, including (a) routes of trade, (ft) the 
crisis produced by the Turks, (c) attempts made up to 1500 to 
find other routes of trade. (Regents.) 

2. (a) What conditions in Europe led Columbus to undertake 
his first voyage? What in his previous career fitted him for dis- 
covery? (Board.) 

(&) Give an account of Columbus's first voyage across the 
Atlantic. In what did his greatness consist? (Amherst.) 

3. Who discovered the continent of North America? Where? 
When? How did America get its name? (Princeton.) 

4. Explain how the name America happened to be applied to 
the western continents. (Princeton.) 

5. Mention four navigators who took part in the discovery 
and identification of the American continents. Indicate briefly 
the results of the voyages of each of them. (Princeton.) 



2. EXPLORATION. 

6. Outline the Spanish explorations in America in the sixteenth 
century. (Ohio State.) 

7. (a) Outline the French explorations in America in the six- 
teenth century. (Ohio State.) 

(6) Give an account of the French exploration and settle- 
ment of the St. Lawrence valley. What was (a) a seigneury, 
(o) an intendant? (Regents.) 

8. Compare the explorations of the French and Spanish in 
North America. (Amherst.) 

9. Summarize as far as 1620 the work done by France and Eng- 
land in opening up America. Name two prominent explorers 
of each nation. (Regents.) 

10. Name four trans-Mississippi explorers or pioneers and give 
a brief account of the achievements of one of them. (Regents.) 

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3. SETTLEMENT. 

11. Mention three causes of the migration to America from 
1600 to 1700. Name a colony in America resulting from each 
cause mentioned. (Regents.) 

12. What unsuccessful attempts were made by the English 
during the sixteenth century to establish settlements in North 
America? Give dates. (Princeton.) 

13. What countries besides England attempted colonies within 
what is now the United States? Where? (Ohio State.) 

14. Mention the first two permanent colonies established by 
Europeans within the present limits of the United States. Give 
an account of the reasons which led to the establishment of 
each of them. (Princeton.) 

15. What political and social conditions in England and France 
led to migration to America in the seventeenth century? 

(Regents.) 

16. Trace the rise of New France in North America. 

(Mass. Tech.) 

17. Describe briefly the explorations and settlements upon 
which the French claim to North America was based. 

(Harvard.) 

18. In what parts of America are communities of French 
descent found at the present time? Tell how they came to be 
there. (Harvard.) 

19. What regions in North America were settled by the Span- 
ish? (Wesleyan.) 

20. What were the conditions in their own country which led 
Englishmen to migrate to America in the seventeenth century, 
and what did they hope to accomplish by this migration? In- 
clude in your answer definite illustrations. (Board.) 

21. What colonies were founded within present boundaries of 
the United States by England in the seventeenth century? 

(Yale.) 

22. Name the thirteen original colonies. State briefly the 
causes and the circumstances attending the founding of each 
of three of these colonies. (Regents.) 

23. Compare the motives of the Spanish (1492-1600) with those 
of the English (1606-1660) with respect to colonization. 

(Regents.) 

24. Describe and explain the part played by the Dutch in the 
history of early America. (Board.) 

25. Where, within the present limits of the United States, were 
colonies attempted by the French, Dutch, and Swedes? What 
was the fate of the Swedish and Dutch colonies? (Ohio State.) 



26. State the basis of the claim of each of the following Euro- 
pean nations to lands in North America in the seventeenth cen- 
tury: England, France, Spain, Holland. (Board.) 

27. Compare the methods of settlement and general colonial 
policies of Spain and England. (California.) 

28. Name six European nations that held possessions in North 
and South America between 1492 and 1763. Name the regions 
held by them then and the regions held by any of them now. 

(Board.) 

29. Give a definite reason for the failure of each of the follow- 
ing European nations in the colonization of North America : 
Spain, France, Holland. (Regents.) 

30. Give two reasons why the French failed in the settlement 
of North America. Give two reasons why the English succeeded. 

(Regents.) 



4. EARLY COLONIAL HISTORY. 

31. What was the Virginia Company? Of what sub-companies 
was it composed? Mention a Colony planted by each of them. 

(Princeton.) 

32. When was the first permanent settlement made in Virginia? 
Who paid the expense? What legal authority was there for this 
undertaking? (Ohio State.) 

33. What were the motives of the English in establishing the 
colony at Jamestown? What were the discouraging conditions 
in Virginia which threatened the colony with ruin, while under 
the control of the London Company? (Princeton.) 

34. Sketch the early settlement of Virginia. (Johns Hopkins.) 

35. Describe the causes of discontent which culminated in Ba- 
con's rebellion. (Board.) 

36. Give the causes and the results of Bacon's rebellion. De- 
scribe the attitude of the government of Virginia in 1676 toward 
self-government. (Regents.) 

37. What was the influence of political conditions in England 
between 1620 and 1660 on Puritan settlement in America? 

(Board.) 

38. Describe the events in England between 1600 and 1660 
which influenced the colonization of New England by the Puri- 
tans. What was the attitude of the New England people during 
this period toward (a) the King, (o) Parliament. (Princeton.) 

39. Give an account of the founding of the Plymouth colony. 

(Ohio State.) 

40. Tell how the Plymouth fathers happened to have lived in 
Amsterdam and in Leyden before coming to America. Describe 



the form of government under which they first lived in Massa- 
chusetts. (Princeton.) 

41 . Describe the settlement of Massachusetts. ( Johns Hopkins. ) 

42. Write a brief account of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 
during the seventeenth century. (Ohio State.) 

43. Describe the situation in Massachusetts which led to the 
founding of Rhode Island. Tell the story of the founding of 
Connecticut Colony. (Board.) 

44. Write on Roger Williams, noting particularly (a) his ideas, 
(6) his difficulties with Massachusetts, (c) his life in Rhode 
Island. (Board.) 

45. What colonies formed the New England Confederation? 
What motives led to its establishment and what results did it 
accomplish? (Ohio State.) 

46. Give an account of the career of Andros as a colonial gov- 
ernor in America. Give important dates. (Board.) 

47. What important Indian wars occurred in New England? 
What was the effect of the wars on the growth of the colonies 
and on their relations with one another? (Board.) 

48. What was the government of colonial Massachusetts like 
in essential features? (Ohio State.) 

49. Compare the settlement of Virginia with that of Plymouth. 

(Yale.) 

50. What were the main points of difference in government 
between Massachusetts and Virginia at the end of the seven- 
teenth century? (Harvard.) 

51. Give the reasons for the early failure at Jamestown and 
for the more favorable progress of the settlement at Boston. 

(Board.) 

52. Summarize the characteristic differences between the col- 
ony of Massachusetts and the colony of Virginia in government, 
settlement, resources, occupations, and life of the inhabitants, 
and religion. (Annapolis.) 

53. State in what respects, during the first two centuries after 
settlement, Virginia developed a very different civilization from 
that of Massachusetts. Give reasons. (Regents.) 

54. Describe the colonization of Maryland. (Johns Hopkins.) 

55. Give an account of the founding of Maryland. Contrast 
the attitude of Maryland toward religion with that of the Mas- 
sachusetts Bay Colony. (Yale.) 

56. Describe the colonization of New York. (Johns Hopkins.) 

57. How was the colony of New Netherland settled? How was 
it acquired by the English? What was the government under 
Dutch and English rule? (Williams.) 



58. Give a brief account of New Amsterdam up to the year 
1660. (Annapolis.) 

59. Give a description of the political organization, the system 
of land tenure, and the trade of the colony of New Netherland. 

(Harvard.) 

60. Show the chief resemblances and differences between the 
settlement and early history of Virginia and New York. 

(Ohio State.) 

61. Describe the principles of the Friends or Quakers, the found- 
ing of Pennsylvania, and its government to 1760. (Board.) 

62. How was Pennsylvania settled? Compare its form of gov- 
ernment with that of Virginia. (Yale.) 

63. What do you know about the beginnings of settlement in 
what is now New Jersey? (Ohio State.) 

64. What do you know about the beginning of settlement in 
what is now South Carolina? (Ohio State.) 

65. When, where and by whom was the last of the thirteen 
colonies settled? What form of government was adopted in it? 

(Princeton.) 

66. (a) Compare Oglethorpe's colony of Georgia with Penn's 
colony of Pennsylvania. 

(&) What were the principal effects of the " Glorious Revo- 
lution" upon the colonies of New England? (Amherst.) 

67. When and where were the first settlements in (1) Mary- 
land, (2) Georgia, (3) Connecticut? What men were promi- 
nently connected with each? (Annapolis.) 

68. Give an account of the establishment of the following settle- 
ments in America, and state when and by whom they were made : 
Quebec, New Amsterdam, Providence, Jamestown, Philadelphia. 

(Princeton.) 

69. (a) Give an account of the founding of Louisiana. (5) 
Discuss the importance of the Louisiana Purchase. (Amherst.) 

70. What were the motives actuating the founders of four of 
the following colonies: Plymouth, Georgia, Maryland, James- 
town, New Netherland? (Board.) 

71. Tell when and by what groups of people the following col- 
onies were first settled: Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland, Penn- 
sylvania. (Ohio State.) 

72. (a) When was the great migration to New England, and 
what caused it? 

(6) When was the Cavalier migration to Virginia? Ac- 
count for it. 

(c) What occasioned the Quaker emigration? Where did 
they settle? 

(d) At about what period was there a German immigra- 
tion to America? Why did they come, and where did they settle 
chiefly? (Penn.) 



73. Distinguish three kinds of colonial government, with ex- 
amples of each. (Johns Hopkins.) 

74. How was the history of the British colonies in America 
influenced by the wars between England and Holland in the sev- 
enteenth century, and between England and France in the 
eighteenth century? (Board.) 

75. Describe two methods of colonization used by the English 
in America, and name a colony established in accordance with 
each method. (Board.) 

76. Explain the difference between (a) royal, (&) charter, (c) 
proprietary colonies. (Ohio State.) 

77. Give a brief account of the early settlement of (1) a pro- 
prietary colony, (2) a corporate or charter colony, and (3) of a 
royal colony. (Trinity.) 

78. Compare Virginia and Massachusetts as regards (a) classes 
of people, (&) church, (c) government, (d) occupations. 

(Board.) 

79. Compare the social and industrial conditions in colonial 
Virginia with those in colonial Massachusetts. Indicate the time 
which you describe. Mention the author and title of any books,, 
outside your textbook, which you have used on this subject. 

(Board.) 

80. Compare the political conditions in Connecticut and Vir- 
ginia during colonial times. (Amherst.) 

81. Describe the attitude, during the colonial period, of Vir- 
ginia, and of New England toward (a) popular education, (6) 
political liberty. (Regents.) 

82. What differences were there between the local governments 
of Virginia and New England? What geographic basis was there 
for such differences? How were the two forms of local govern- 
ment combined in New York? (Regents.) 

83. Compare the system of local government during colonial 
times in New England with that in the southern colonies. What 
check did a colonial legislature have on the power of the gov- 
ernor? (Regents.) 

84. Which colonies were the Puritan colonies? In what re- 
spects did they differ from the other colonies? (Williams.) 

85. How did the English Revolution of 1688-89 affect govern- 
ment in the American colonies? (Princeton.) 

86. Describe the life of a Virginia planter in the eighteenth 
century. (Board.) 

87. Mention three important occupations of colonial Americans 
and briefly describe one of these occupations. (Regents.) 

88. Describe the town meeting in early New England, and con- 



trast it with local government in Virginia in the seventeenth 
century. (Board.) 

89. What English religious denominations made settlements in 
North America during the seventeenth century? Name the 
settlements made by each. (Princeton.) 

90. How did Pennsylvania, Maryland and Rhode Island show a 
democratic spirit in their attitude toward religion? (Eegents.) 

91. In which one of the colonies would you rather have lived 
previous to the Eevolution? Give your reasons. (Harvard.) 

92. What were the principal industries of the English colonies 
in America by the middle of the eighteenth century, and what 
were the principal articles of colonial trade with England? 

(Board.) 

93. Compare the patroon system of New Netherland with the 
plantation system of Virginia. (Regents.) 

94. Write on the history of education in the American colonies. 

(Harvard.) 

95. Compare a French colony with an English colony with re- 
spect to (a) motives of the colonists in coming to America, (&) 
relations with the Indians, (c) occupations. (Regents.) 

96. Describe the political organization and government of New 
France, and point out wherein New France resembled, and 
wherein it differed politically, from the English colonies. 

(Board.) 

97. In what ways was English colonial policy in the sixteenth 
and seventeenth centuries better than that of France? (Board.) 

98. What were the relations of the early settlers with the In- 
dians? Explain the causes of Indian wars. (Williams.) 

99. "The achieving of democracy is a long, necessarily slow 
process and each generation has contributed toward making the 
ideal a reality." State a contribution toward the achieving of 
democracy made by each of two of the following colonies: Vir- 
ginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 
Explain how one of these colonies aided in this achievement. 

(Regents.) 

100. Explain the relations existing between a colonial governor 
and his colonial assembly. (Regents.) 



5. INTERCOLONIAL WARS. 

101. Give an account of the way England added to her posses- 
sions in North America between 1660 and 1763. (Board.) 

102. Write the story and explain the importance of the con- 
quest of Canada by England. (Mass. Tech.) 

103. Give the causes, European and colonial, of two of the 



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French-English wars, 1689-1763. What were the terms of the 
final peace? (Regents.) 

104. Sketch the causes which led to the French and Indian War. 
Describe the events of that war which placed the name of 
James Wolfe among the great names of English history. 

(Princeton.) 

105. What cessions of American territory resulted from the 
French and Indian War? (Ohio State.) 

106. (a) Give the causes and the effects of the French and 
Indian War. (Ohio State.) 

(&) Give the chief events of the French and Indian War. 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

(c) What part did George Washington take in the French 

and Indian War? (Johns Hopkins.) 

107. What territorial changes resulted from the French and 
Indian War? How did this war affect the political relations of 
England and her American colonies? (California.) 

108. What was the Albany Plan of Union? Why did it fail? 

(Dartmouth.) 

109. When and for what purpose did the Albany Convention 
meet? What action did it take? What was the attitude of the 
English government toward it? (Princeton.) 

110. In what ways did the banishment of French power from 
North America in 1763 affect the relationship between England 
and her American colonies? (Princeton.) 



6. CAUSES OF REVOLUTION. 

111. Explain two ways in which the British defeat of the French 
was a turning point in the history of America. (Regents.) 

112. Mention four causes of discontent that led to the Amer- 
ican Revolution. Explain briefly one of these causes. (Regents.) 

113. Discuss the commerce of Massachusetts in the middle of 
the eighteenth century. (Harvard.) 

114. What were the contents and effects of the Navigation 
Acts? Were they enforced? (Dartmouth.) 

115. Name three acts of Parliament, passed before 1763, which 
hindered American foreign trade, and state the provisions and 
effect of each. (Board.) 

116. Why did Great Britain change its policy towards the col- 
onies after 1763? (Board.) 

117. What plans for taxing the colonies were adopted by Eng- 
land between 1763 and 1775? How were these measures re- 
ceived in America? (Yale.) 



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118. Make an outline of the chief acts of the English Parlia- 
ment and of the events in the colonies from 1763 to 1775 that 
led to the American Revolution. (Regents.) 

119. How were the domestic manufactures and foreign trade 
of the colonies affected by English legislation? (Mass. Tech.) 

120. (a) What were the causes, provisions, and results of the 
Stamp Act? Give the arguments in its favor. (Board.) 

(6) Why did the British Parliament pass the Stamp Act 
in 1765? How was the income from the sale of stamps to be 
used? (California.) 

(c) What were the provisions of the Stamp Act? What 
was the nature of the opposition to its enforcement, and when 
was it repealed? (Princeton.) 

121. Give the causes of the American Revolution. (Ohio State.) 

122. What liberties did the Americans claim in 1775? How had 
the English government tried to deny these? (Ohio State.) 

123. State the principles fought for in the Revolution. 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

124. What is meant by the statement that the Americans in 
the American Revolution fought the battles of Englishmen in 
England? (Regents.) 

125. State the English and American arguments respecting tax- 
ation of the colonies. (Mass. Tech.) 

126. State the substance of the Stamp Act and of the Town- 
shend Acts and explain what these meant in the relation of the 
colonies and England. (Leland Stanford.) 

127. Distribute correctly, under the following titles, the lead- 
ing events in the history of colonial resistance to the Acts of 
the British Parliament or the King. (1) Protests. (2) Riots 
(3) Non-Importation. (4) Congresses. (Princeton.) 

128. An English statesman said concerning the American Revo- 
lution, " If England prevails, English and American liberty is at 
an end." Explain this statement. (Regents.) 

129. Show the extent to which the Revolution, while it gained 
political independence, failed to secure democracy. (Regents.) 

130. Mention three forces working for and one working against 
the union of the colonies up to 1775. Show the way in which 
each of two of these forces affected the formation of the union. 

(Regents.) 



7. REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

131. Give a brief outline of the Revolutionary War. 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

132. Give an account of Burgoyne's campaign, and indicate the 



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importance of its results. Mention the author and title of any 
books, outside your text-book, which you have used on the Revo- 
lution. (Board.) 

133. Sketch briefly the military campaigns in the South during 
the years 1780-81. (Annapolis.) 

134. What events forced the surrender of Cornwallis at York- 
town? (Johns Hopkins.) 

135. Where, how and by whom was the Revolutionary War 
brought to a close? (Princeton.) 

136. Discuss the treaty of peace which followed the American 
Revolution. What difficulties arose on account of the non-ful- 
fillment of this treaty? (California.) 

137. The difficulties and the outcome of the negotiations for 
peace in 1782. (Harvard.) 

138. What were the main provisions of the treaty of peace with 
England in 1783? (Ohio State.) 

139. Describe briefly the steps toward a union among the Eng- 
lish colonies in America prior to 1776. (Princeton.) 

140. What three Congresses were held by the colonists between 
1765 and 1776, and what were the most important measures 
adopted by each? (Penn.) 

141. Discuss the work of the Second Continental Congress. 

(Annapolis.) 

142. Give the circumstances impelling the colonists to issue a 
Declaration of Independence. State two of its doctrines. 

(Regents.) 

143. What were the contents of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence? Who was its author? What is the importance of it in 
our history? (Dartmouth.) 

144. "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a 
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct 
object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these 
States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world." 
What were some of the facts as set forth in the Declaration of 
Independence? (Mass. Tech.) 

145. State the facts that underlay the following charges in the 
Declaration of Independence : (a) He has kept among us, in times 
of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. 
(6) He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for op- 
posing with manly firmness his invasions of the rights of the 
people, (c) He has combined with others to subject us to a 
jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by 
our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legisla- 
tion : For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world ; For 
imposing taxes on us without our consent. (Board.) 



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146. What help did the United States receive during the Revo- 
lution — from what countries, and in what form? (Ohio State.) 

147. When did France declare war against England during the 
Revolutionary War? What was her object in so doing? What 
did she contribute to the success of the Americans? (Princeton.) 

148. Why did France aid the colonies in the war against Eng- 
land? At what point in the war did she risk an alliance? 
State the provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 in regard 
to (a) the boundaries of the United States, (6) the Mississippi 
river, (c) the American debts to British subjects, (d) the treat- 
ment of the loyalists or "Tories." (Board.) 

149. From what class in society did the Loyalists mainly come, 
why were they opposed to the Revolution, how were they treated, 
and what became of them? (Board.) 

150. Describe two advantages that Americans gained by seced- 
ing from the British Empire. Also describe one disadvantage 
from that secession. (Board.) 



8. CRITICAL PERIOD. 

151. Explain why it is appropriate to speak of the period 1783- 
1789 as the " Critical Period of American History." (Princeton.) 

152. Under what kind of government did the United States 
first begin her career as an independent nation? Why were the 
Articles of Confederation unsuccessful? Tell what you know of 
the change from the government under those Articles to the 
government under our present Constitution. (Princeton.) 

153. What were the defects of the government under the 
Articles of Confederation, and what amendments were proposed 
to remedy them? (Board.) 

154. What events of the years from 1783 to 1787 influenced the 
American people to adopt a stronger government than that 
afforded by the Articles of Confederation? (Princeton.) 

155. Point out three defects in the Articles of Confederation 
and state how those defects were remedied by the Constitution. 

(Yale.) 

156. (1) Describe the government under the Articles of Con- 
federation. (2) In what particulars does the present Constitu- 
tion improve upon that government? (3) How was the present 
Constitution framed and put into operation? (Trinity.) 

157. " I doubt whether one single law or any law giver, ancient 
or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and 
lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787."— Daniel Webster. 
What was the Ordinance of 1787? Give reasons tending to jus- 
tify Webster's opinion. (Regents.) 



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158. Give an account of the organization of the Northwest 
Territory, including (a) extent of territory, (&) names of three 
eastern states having claims in this territory, (c) three provi- 
sions of the Ordinance of 1787. What influence did this ordi- 
nance have on subsequent American history? (Regents.) 

159. What provisions of the Ordinance of 1787 show the ad- 
vance in the spirit of democracy after the Revolutionary War? 

(Regents.) 

160. Give three attempts at union or concerted action made by 
the colonies previous to 1787. Write briefly on two of these at- 
tempts, showing their importance as steps leading to ultimate 
union under the Constitution. (Regents.) 

161. Give an account of two of the following: (a) the New 
England Confederation, (&) the Albany Congress, (c) the Stamp 
Act Congress, (d) the Continental Congresses, (e) the Constitu- 
tional Convention of 1787. (Regents.) 

162. Give the chief causes of the calling of the Constitutional 
Convention of 1787. (Ohio State.) 

163. What body drafted the Constitution of the United States? 
Where and when? What was the method of its adoption? 
What was the main purpose of its supporters? (Princeton.) 

164. How was the Constitution of the United States prepared 
and adopted? (Johns Hopkins.) 

165. State the three great compromises in the federal Consti- 
tution. Give an account of the discussion in the Federal Con- 
vention that led to one of these compromises. (Regents.) 

166. Name three members of the Constitutional Convention of 
1787, and discuss the service of each in the Convention. 

(Ohio State.) 

167. The Constitution of the United States provides that Con- 
gress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign na- 
tions and among the several States and with the Indian tribes. 
Illustrate the need of such a provision from the history of the 
Confederation. Give some examples of important legislation 
passed by Congress under this provision. (Harvard.) 

168. Write an account of the ratification of the Constitution 
after its acceptance by the Convention. (Dartmouth.) 

169. Give (a) three arguments of those who favored the rati- 
fication of the Federal Constitution, (&) two arguments of those 
who opposed its ratification. (Regents.) 

170. What sections of the country, what social classes, and 
what economic interests favored the adoption of the Constitu- 
tion, and why? (Board.) 



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9. THE CONSTITUTION. 

171. State the fundamental differences between the Articles of 
Confederation and the Constitution of the United States. 

(Mass. Tech.) 

172. Mention three fields of governmental action in which the 
Federal Government has exclusive control, and three in which 
the State has exclusive control. (Board.) 

173. Mention two powers delegated to the national government 
by the Constitution. Why were these powers given to the nation 
rather than to the States? Discuss the growing tendency of the 
national government to expand its powers at the expense of the 
States, citing two recent instances. (Regents.) 

174. What specific limitations are laid upon the States by the 
Constitution? (Board.) 

175. What three departments of government are provided by 
our present Constitution? Tell how the officers in each depart- 
ment are chosen. (Princeton.) 

176. State the different methods that have been used for nom- 
inating and electing candidates for the presidency, and cite in- 
stances illustrating each method. (Mass. Tech.) 

177. Describe the system by which political parties today nom- 
inate candidates for President and Vice-President, and show 
wherein the present system has developed from earlier ones. 

(Board.) 

178. What conditions, other than legal or constitutional, de- 
termine the choice of a candidate for President? Give three 
illustrations: one before 1815, one between 1815 and 1865, and 
one since 1865. (Board.) 

179. How did the Twelfth Amendment modify the provisions 
of the Constitution respecting the election of President? What 
have been the various methods employed for the nomination of 
presidential candidates? (Mass. Tech.) 

180. Describe the system by which the political parties today 
nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, and 
show wherein the present system has developed from earlier 
ones. (Board.) 

181. How are the President and Vice-President chosen? What 
is done when no one receives a majority of the electoral vote? 
State what the law is in regard to presidential succession in 
case of death or disability of both President and Vice-President. 

(Board.) 

182. How is a President of the United States nominated and 
elected? How may a President or members of Congress be re- 
moved? (California.) 

183. Describe the several steps in the election of a President, 



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from the calling of a national convention to the inauguration. 

(Harvard.) 

184. How have the provisions of the Constitution regarding the 
election of the President been modified in practice by the devel- 
opment of the party system? (Regents.) 

185. Describe briefly the powers granted the President of the 
United States under the Federal Constitution. (Princeton.) 

186. Explain the relation of the President of the United States 
to the national legislature, showing whether the general tend- 
ency is for him to exercise a larger or a smaller part in legis- 
lation. (Regents.) 

187. Give an account of the powers and duties of the President 
of the United States with respect to foreign relations. 

(Mass. Tech.) 

188. Discuss fully the powers of the President in foreign affairs. 
What is the part of the Senate in foreign affairs? (Board.) 

189. Name the Cabinet departments and give a general state- 
ment of the functions of each. (California.) 

190. What are the chief duties of the Secretary of State, of the 
Attorney-General, of the Secretary of the Interior? (Princeton.) 

191. Has the President a right to veto any bill which he dis- 
likes? Illustrate by three or four examples taken from different 
periods. (Harvard.) 

192. What control does the President have over the making of 
laws? How does he exercise this control? (Wesleyan.) 

193. Why is a provision of the Constitution superior to a law 
of Congress? Show what control over congressional legislation 
is possessed by (a) the President, (&) the Supreme Court. 

(Board.) 

194. Explain the method of nominating and electing members 
of the U. S. House of Representatives ; give the qualifications of 
voters and of candidates, and state how these are determined. 

(Mass. Tech.) 

195. State and discuss the powers of Congress concerning (a) 
taxation, including tariff duties, and (ft) foreign and interstate 
commerce. (Mass. Tech.) 

196. What is meant by implied powers? What national meas- 
ures have been promoted by the use of such powers? 

(California.) 

197. Explain " The Congress shall have power ... to make all 
laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into exe- 
cution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this 
Constitution in the Government of the U. S. or in any depart- 
ment or office thereof." (Mass. Tech.) 

198. What is meant by the " implied powers " of the Constitu- 



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tion? Give an account of an application of suck powers in con- 
gressional legislation. (Mass. Tech.) 

199. What are the provisions of the Constitution relating to 
(a) the election of members of the House of Representatives, 
(6) the election of United States Senators? (Board.) 

200. How are United States Senators chosen? How long do 
Senators serve? What judicial function does the Senate exer- 
cise? (Princeton.) 

201. Give an account of the judicial functions of the U. S. 
Senate, and examples of the exercise of such functions. 

(Mass. Tech.) 

202. Mention and explain certain powers and duties of the 
United States Senate that are not also exercised by the House 
of Representatives. (Board.) 

203. Why has the Senate become a much more powerful body 
than the House of Representatives, and in what sense may it be 
said to have " usurped powers belonging to the House and the 
President"? (Board.) 

204. Contrast the speaker of the House of Representatives and 
the president of the Senate in regard to (a) method of choice, 
(&) duties, and (c) actual power in legislation. (Board.) 

205. What are the provisions of the Constitution relative to 
(a) the election of members of the House of Representatives, 
(6) the election of United States Senators? (Board.) 

206. (a) What may the House of Representatives do that the 
Senate may not do? 

(&) How may the President influence the legislative ac- 
tion of either house? (Board.) 

207. Compare the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives 
as to (a) method by which members are chosen, (6) terms of 
membership, (c) apportionment of members among states, (d) 
powers peculiar to either house. (Ohio State.) 

208. What are the powers of the speaker of the national House 
of Representatives? Explain the importance of the committees 
of Congress. (Ohio State.) 

209. What are the powers of the speaker of the House of 
Representatives? What are the powers of the Committee on 
Rules? (Harvard.) 

210. How are members of the President's Cabinet chosen? How 
may they be removed? What suggestions have been made to 
increase the efficiency of Cabinet officers? (Board.) 

211. Give the various stages through which a bill is enacted 
into a law, and the various ways in which a bill may fail to be- 
come a law. (Board.) 

212. (1) How are Senators, Representatives in Congress, and 



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the President chosen, respectively? 

(2) What part may the President take in the making of 
laws and in making treaties? 

(3) Outline the steps by which a bill in Congress may 
become a law. 

(4) What executive powers does the Senate possess? 

(Trinity.) 

213. What is the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts? What 
cases may be appealed from State Courts to Federal Courts? 

(Board.) 

214. What was the jurisdiction of the United States Courts 
under the original Constitution and how was it affected by the 
Eleventh Amendment? (Board.) 

215. How are judges of the Federal Court selected? Of State 
Courts? Explain how judges are removed from office. 

(Ohio State.) 

216. Explain the process of impeachment, and sketch the his- 
tory of one important impeachment of a federal officer. 

(Board.) 

217. By what methods may the Constitution of the United 
States be amended, and by which of these methods has it been 
amended? (Board.) 

218. Describe clearly the various methods of proposing and 
adopting amendments to the Constitution of the United States. 

(Princeton.) 

219. When and how has the Constitution of the United States 
been amended? (Yale.) 

220. How may the Constitution be amended? How many 
amendments are there at present? (Board.) 

221. What is contained in the so-called Bill of Bights (or first 
ten amendments) of the Constitution of the United States? 

(Board.) 

222. Explain the following and state the reasons for its adop- 
tion : " The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes 
on incomes from whatever source derived without apportion- 
ment among the several States and without regard to any cen- 
sus or enumeration." (Mass. Tech.) 

223. What is a tax? What constitutes a just tax? State three 
sources of federal income and three purposes of federal ex- 
penditure. (Regents.) 

224. When and why was the Seventeenth Amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States adopted? (Board.) 

225. Group the amendments to the Federal Constitution on the 
basis of the approximate dates of their enactment, and indicate 
the purpose of each group. (Begents.) 



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10. FEDERALISTS AND DEMOCRAT-REPUBLICANS. 

226. The government of the United States in 1789 has been 
called an aristocratic government. Support this view by men- 
tioning three features at that time which might be called aris- 
tocratic today. Mention two democratic changes that have oc- 
curred since 1787. (Regents.) 

227. Give a brief account of the public services of Alexander 
Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. Of what political party 
was he the founder? (Princeton.) 

228. Mention two controversies regarding the constitutional 
powers of Congress that arose between 1789 and 1801, and give 
an account of one of them. (Board.) 

229. Sketch the history of the Mission of " Citizen " Genet. 

(Princeton.) 

230. Give an account of Genet's mission and of the foreign 
policy of Washington's second administration. (Board.) 

231. What political parties existed in the United States in 
1790, and what were their principles? (Yale.) 

232. State (a) what classes of society and (Z>) what sections 
of the country supported the Federalist party, and explain why 
such was the case. (Board.) 

233. Who were the Federalists? What did they do as a polit- 
ical party? (Williams.) 

234. Give an account of the Federalist party, including (a) 
reasons why it was better for the Federalists than for the Dem- 
ocratic-Republicans to be in control of the government during 
the early years of the republic, (&) causes of the downfall of 
the Federalist party. (Regents.) 

235. Describe the causes of the Whisky Rebellion and give its 
results. (Regents.) 

236. Describe the financial policy adopted by the new govern- 
ment (1789-1796), covering two of the following: (a) foreign 
debt, (&) state debts, (c) sources of revenue. (Regents.) 

237. Which party would you have supported if you had been 
a voter during John Adams' administration? State your reasons 
in such a way as to indicate the chief questions which divided 
the American people at that time. (Princeton.) 

238. How did Jefferson and his followers differ in political 
views from the Federalists during the administrations of Wash- 
ington and Adams? (Princeton.) 

239. What were the Alien and Sedition Acts and their object? 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

240. Compare the causes that led to the Alien and Sedition 
Laws of 1798 with the causes justifying present or proposed 



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measures against dangerous aliens and sedition today. 

(Regents.) 

241. What were the Virginia and Kentucky Eesolutions? 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

242. Explain carefully the causes of the downfall of the Fed- 
eralist party. Mention the leaders of the party and the public 
positions they occupied. (Mass. Tech.) 

243. State in regard to Jefferson (a) his political principles, 
(6) the achievements of his administration. (Board.) 

244. Discuss the events of Jefferson's presidency. 

(Ohio State.) 

245. Name tico rebellions that occurred between 1781 and 1800 
against the existing government of the United States. Show by 
an account of the suppression of these rebellions the difference 
in power of the government under the Articles of Confederation 
and under the Constitution. (Regents.) 

246. What three nations were owners of Louisiana between the 
years 1783 and 1804? Tell the story of our purchase of Louisi- 
ana. (Princeton.) 

247. The causes and results of the Louisiana purchase. 

(Harvard.) 

248. Discuss the Louisiana Purchase with special reference to 
(a) Jefferson's theory of interpreting the Constitution, (&) the 
subsequent territorial growth of the U. S., and (c) its relation 
to the slavery issue. (Mass. Tech.) 

249. How was the foreign trade of the U. S. affected by con- 
ditions in Europe during Jefferson's administration? How did 
his administration attempt to protect this trade? (Board.) 

250. Why were American politics very much influenced between 
1789 and 1815 by political events in Europe? Point out some 
more recent instances in which a similar influence has operated. 

(Brown.) 



11. WAR OF 1812. 

251. Discuss the causes and the results of the War of 1812. 

(California.) 

252. Give the chief events of the War of 1812. 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

253. What were the important results of the War of 1812? 
What measures passed by Congress at its close, and shortly 
afterward indicated that the war "had awakened a national 
consciousness." (Board.) 

254. (a) Explain the causes of the War of 1812. 



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(&) What was the Hartford Convention of 1814? 
(c) What were the results of the War of 1812? 

(Annapolis.) 

255. Give an account of the struggle of the U. S. to secure its 
rights as a neutral during the period of the Napoleonic W T ars. 

(Penn.) 

256. "The War of 1812 has been often and truly called the 
Second War of Independence." Explain the meaning of this 
statement and give three concrete results of the war. 

(Regents.) 

257. How did two of the following seeming disadvantages of 
the War of 1812 produce advantageous results to the United 
States: (a) the blockade, (&) the difficulty of financing the war, 
(c) the strengthening of our policy of isolation by our drifting 
away from European influences? (Eegents.) 

258. Show the influence of each of Uvo of the following on the 
War of 1812: (a) English orders in council, (&) French decrees, 
(c) impressment, (d) America's retaliatory measures. 

(Regents.) 

259. Mention an important political and an important economic 
result of the War of 1812 on the United States. Write a para- 
graph on one of these results. (Regents.) 

260. Explain how the War of 1812 affected the shipping inter- 
ests of New England and show what marked industrial changes 
resulted. (Regents.) 



12. THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING. 

261. What is meant by the Era of Good Feeling? Describe the 
political situation at the time. (Brown.) 

262. To what political party did President Monroe belong? 
State the Monroe Doctrine. What caused President Monroe to 
declare it? Is the Monroe Doctrine a law or merely the expres- 
sion of a policy? (Princeton.) 

263. Sketch American foreign relations under President Monroe. 

(Yale.) 

264. What is the Monroe Doctrine? Describe the circumstances 
under which it arose. (Amherst.) 

265. Write on the Monroe Doctrine, explaining how and when 
it came into existence, and what it meant for American foreign 
policy. (Leland Stanford.) 

266. Write on the later development of the Monroe Doctrine. 

(Harvard.) 

267. Explain the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine. State the 



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part it has played in our history, and indicate its importance at 
the present time. (Mass. Tech.) 

268. Describe the presidential election of 1824, and show how 
its results affected the political fortunes of John Quincy Adams 
and Henry Clay. (Board.) 

269. Define " internal improvements " ; mention one important 
work of this character undertaken by the Federal Government 
before 1829, and state the constitutional objections to such un- 
dertakings urged by two early presidents. (Board.) 

270. Describe the powers of the Federal Supreme Court as given 
in the Constitution and give an account of the growth of these 
powers through the influence of Justice John Marshall. 

(Regents.) 



13. DEMOCRATS AND WHIGS, 1828-1850. 

271. Describe the administration of Andrew Jackson. 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

272. Give an account of the more important policies of Presi- 
dent Jackson's administrations. (Princeton.) 

273. What was the "Spoils System"? When and by whom 
begun? What law was enacted to abolish it? When? 

(Princeton.) 

274. Describe the contest of President Jackson with the Nulli- 
fiers and the National Bank. (Williams.) 

275. Controversies over a National Bank from 1830 to 1845. 

(Harvard.) 

276. Give an account of the Second United States Bank and 
tell how and why it was dissolved. (Yale.) 

277. How and why did Jackson destroy the Second Bank of the 
United States, and what provision was subsequently made for 
taking care of government funds? (Board.) 

278. What was the Doctrine of Nullification? When and under 
what circumstances was an attempt made to put it in practice? 
What was the result? (Princeton.) 

279. What is meant by nullification? What was the attitude 
of each of the two statesmen, Webster and Calhoun, toward 
the Doctrine of Nullification? What laws did South Carolina 
attempt to nullify in 1832? What was the result? (Princeton.) 

280. Contrast the conduct of President Jackson in dealing with 
nullification with that of President Buchanan in the crisis of 
1860-61. (Board.) 

281. What was the occasion of the Webster-Hayne debate of 



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1830? What was the main point at issue in this debate? What 
position did each statesman take on the main issue? (Kegents.) 

282. Write a brief history of South Carolina Nullification, and 
show its relation to earlier and later analogous theories. 

(Mass. Tech.) 

283. How did the question of Texas affect American interests 
and politics before the Mexican War? (Yale.) 

284. What were the causes of the financial panic of 1837? 

(Wesleyan.) 

285. What was the cause of the break between President Tyler 
and the Whig Party after the death of President Harrison? 

(Trinity.) 

286. What were the two leading issues involved in the presiden- 
tial election of 1844? How was each of them finally settled? 

(Princeton.) 

287. Write on the Mexican War, commenting especially on (a) 
its causes, (6) its principal campaigns, (c) its territorial results, 
(d) its effect on the slavery controversy. (Board.) 

288. Give an account of the causes, course, and consequences 
of the Mexican War (1846-1848). (Mass. Tech.) 

289. Give tico causes and three results of the Mexican War 
(1846). (Regents.) 

290. What political issue was the direct result of the Mexican 
War? How was it settled? (Ohio State.) 



14. SLAVERY AND SECESSION. 

291. (a) What were the compromises over slavery in the Con- 
stitutional Convention of 1787? 

(6) Mention two later compromises over slavery, stating 
the time and chief features of each. (Penn.) 

292. Distinguish between (a) the economic, (6) the constitu- 
tional, (c) the territorial, and (d) the moral aspects of slavery 
in the United States. Mention any reading you have done on 
the subject of slavery. (Board.) 

293. Contrast the planter aristocracy and the poor white class 
in the South before the Civil War in respect to numbers, wealth 
and influence. (Board.) 

294. State the facts in regard to slavery, including its restric- 
tion, in two of the following: (a) the colonies, (Z>) the Consti- 
tution, (c) the United States, 1789-1820. (Board.) 

295. (a) What were the economic consequences of the inven- 
tion of the cotton gin? 



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(6) What were the political consequences of the discov- 
ery of gold in California? (Board.) 

296. What steps were taken by Northern statesmen to prevent 
the extension of slavery, 1815-1855? (Yale.) 

297. Why did the Southern States, in the half century preced- 
ing the Civil War, insist upon extending slavery into new terri- 
tory? Why did the North oppose this extension? (Princeton.) 

298. What was the Missouri Compromise, and what was its 
political importance? (Johns Hopkins.) 

299. When and how was the Missouri Compromise repealed? 

(Yale.) 

300. Outline the steps by which political parties were forced, 
between 1830 and 1861, to declare themselves in regard to slavery. 

(Board.) 

301. Who were the leaders in the Abolition Movement, 1830- 
1850? What part did the Movement play in politics during this 
period? (Wesleyan.) 

302. Write on the Mexican War, commenting especially on (a) 
its causes, (&) its principal campaigns, (c) its territorial results, 
(d) its effects on the slavery controversy. (Board.) 

303. State the attitude toward slavery of five of the following 
parties: (a) Anti-Nebraska, (&) Constitutional Union, (c) Lib- 
erty, (d) Northern (or Douglas) Democrats, (e) Eepublicans, 
(/) Southern (or Breckinridge) Democrats. (Board.) 

304. What do you regard as the five most important events in 
the history of the slavery question between 1820 and 1860? 
Explain each briefly. (Trinity.) 

305. What was the Wilmot Proviso? When and under what 
circumstances was it proposed? What became of it? 

(Princeton.) 

306. Explain the causes, provisions and results of the Com- 
promise of 1850. (Ohio State.) 

307. State the chief points of the Compromise of 1850. 

(Princeton.) 

308. With what measures for the settlement of the slavery 
question is Henry Clay's name associated? Give the principal 
features of each measure. (Princeton.) 

309. Show how the extension of slavery was affected by each 
of the following: (1) Missouri Compromise, (2) Compromise of 
1850, (3) Kansas-Nebraska Bill, (4) Wilmot Proviso. 

(Annapolis.) 

310. Describe the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Ne- 
braska Bill. (Johns Hopkins.) 

311. State the substance of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and give 
an account of its passage by Congress. (California.) 



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312. What were the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott 
Decision? (Johns Hopkins.) 

313. (a) Was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 a wise measure 
from the point of view of the South? Give reasons for your 
answer. 

(Z>) What is meant by the Writ of Habeas Corpus? 

(Amherst.) 

314. Give a brief account of the struggle of pro-slavery and 
free soil men for the possession of Kansas. (Princeton.) 

315. How did tivo of the following tend to settle the dispute 
concerning the extension of slavery : Compromise of 1820, Com- 
promise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Bill? (Regents.) 

316. Explain the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Who 
was its chief author ; when was it enacted ; and what were some 
of its immediate consequences? (Princeton.) 

317. Explain the rise of the Republican party. (Ohio State.) 

318. Write on either the Webster-Hayne debate or the Lincoln- 
Douglas debates, touching on (a) the occasion for the debate, 
(B) the principal arguments of each debater. (Regents.) 

319. Describe either the Webster-Hayne debate or the Lincoln- 
Douglas debates, including (a) the occasion, (ft) the points at 
issue, (c) the influence on subsequent American history. 

(Regents.) 

320. Explain what is meant by the "compact theory" of the 
Constitution. Name three prominent advocates of the theory 
before 1840. In what documents is the theory set forth? 
State concisely the arguments in its favor. (Board.) 

321. Point out the resemblances and differences between the 
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the South Carolina Nullifica- 
tion Doctrine and the Secession Theory. (Mass. Tech.) 

322. State three controversies that have arisen over the alleged 
right of a state to nullify a federal law. Give the issues in- 
volved in one of these controversies. (Regents.) 

323. What is meant by the Doctrine of States' Rights? Where 
was this doctrine most popular and why? (California.) 

324. What was the constitutional principle involved in seces- 
sion? (Yale.) 

325. Outline the history of the secession movement, including 
in your answer the appearance of this movement in the second, 
fourth and sixth decades of the nineteenth century. (Regents.) 

326. Upon what theory did the South justify her action in 1861? 
Explain the Southern argument. (Ohio State.) 

327. How was the presidential election of 1860 affected (a) by 



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the Dred Scott Decision, (6) by the Lincoln-Douglas debates, 
(c) by the John Brown raid? (Princeton.) 

328. Why was the election of 1860 the occasion of secession? 

(Princeton.) 

329. What causes, other than slavery, brought about the Civil 
War? (Regents.) 

330. Show that the slavery question was " an irrepressible con- 
flict between opposing and enduring forces," which were both 
economic and social. (Regents.) 



15. THE CIVIL WAR. 

331. What efforts were made to avert secession and civil war 
before 1861, when and how? (Yale.) 

332. (1) Give an account of the presidential campaign of 
1860, explaining the position of the different parties and candi- 
dates on the slavery question. 

(2) Why did the South secede from the Union? 

(Trinity.) 

333. Explain carefully the causes of the Civil War. 

(Ohio State.) 

334. It is sometimes said that the Civil War was brought about 
by fanatical reformers on the one side and ambitious politicians 
on the other. Discuss this statement, giving specific events to 
show the truth or the error of it. (Regents.) 

335. Compare briefly the economic conditions of the North and 
the South at the opening of the Civil War. (Board.) 

336. State four important problems which confronted the mil- 
itary and naval strategists of the United States during the 
Civil War. Briefly trace the operations found necessary in the 
solution of one of these problems. (Board.) 

337. Describe the various methods by which the Federal Gov- 
ernment obtained the money necessary for carrying on the 
Civil War. (Board.) 

338. Describe the opening of the Mississippi River by the Fed- 
eral forces in the Civil War. (Yale.) 

339. Give an account of Sherman's campaign during the Civil 
War, and explain its significance. (Ohio State.) 

340. Give an account of one major campaign of the Civil War, 
mentioning leaders, battles fought, and territory gained or lost. 

(Regents.) 

341. Tell the story of the Gettysburg campaign. What was its 
significance? (Board.) 

342. Mention the two contemporary campaigns of the Civil 



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War which marked the turning-point in that struggle, and give 
briefly the military history of one of those campaigns. (Board.) 

343. The last year of the Civil War (April, 1864, to April, 1865). 

(Harvard.) 

344. Give an account of the relations of the United States, and 
of the Confederacy, with England during the War of Secession. 

(Harvard.) 

345. Describe conditions and sentiment in the North during 
the Civil War, using the following topics: (a) taxes, (&) green- 
backs, (c) copperhead, (d) draft riots. (Board.) 

346. Explain the part played by the U. S. Navy during the 
Civil War. (Wesleyan.) 

347. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? When and 
by whom issued? When was it put into force? Was that the 
end of the matter? (Princeton.) 

348. " The abolition of slaves was necessary to the industrial 
freedom of the South." Discuss fully this statement. (Regents.) 

349. What was Lincoln's policy in reference to the emancipa- 
tion of the slaves? Why did the Emancipation Proclamation 
come so late? How was permanent emancipation finally se- 
cured? (Amherst.) 

350. Summarize the successive steps, beginning with Lincoln's 
preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and ending with the 
Fifteenth Amendment, by which the negro became a voting cit- 
izen. (Regents.) 



16. RECONSTRUCTION. 

351. Why was the death of Lincoln a serious injury to the South? 

(Princeton.) 

352. Tell what you can of the administration of Andrew John- 
son. (Yale.) 

353. What was Reconstruction and when was it completed? 

(Yale.) 

354. How was the reconstruction of the southern states ac- 
complished? (Yale.) 

355. What were the differences between Lincoln's plan of re- 
construction in the South and the plan of Congress? (Amherst.) 

356. What was Lincoln's policy of "reconstruction"? John- 
son's? Thaddeus Stevens'? Why can the phrase "The birth of 
a nation" be applied to this period? (Columbia.) 

357. Explain the origin of the dispute between President John- 
son and Congress. In what proceedings did it culminate, and 
what was the outcome? (Princeton.) 



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358. Give the presidential and the congressional plans of re- 
construction. What was the Freedmen's Bureau? (Trinity.) 

359. What conflict between Congress and President arose at 
the close of the Civil War? What proceedings did Congress in- 
stitute against the President? How did they result? 

(Princeton.) 

360. What were the matters in dispute between President John- 
son and Congress? What was the outcome of the dispute? 

(Princeton.) 

361. Explain the plan of reconstruction adopted by Congress in 
1867, and show in what respects it was subject to criticism. 

(Regents.) 

362. Explain why President Johnson's opponents desired to im- 
peach him. (Harvard.) 

363. What were the causes of the impeachment of President 
Johnson? Describe his trial. (Board.) 

364. Explain how the following prohibition is evaded without 
being literally violated : " The right of citizens of the United 
States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United 
States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous 
condition of servitude." (Mass. Tech.) 

365. What is meant by the " solid South," and what events 
made the South "solid"? (Board.) 

366. Explain the meaning of the statement " The crime of re- 
construction." (Board.) 

367. Why did Ulysses S. Grant make such a success as a Gen- 
eral and such a seeming failure as a President? (Board.) 

368. What facts justify the charge of official corruption in 
Grant's administration? (Board.) 

369. Trace the series of events that led up to the Geneva Arbi- 
tration of 1871-72. (Board.) 

370. What were the Alabama Claims, and how were they set- 
tled? (Board.) 

371. What is meant by the resumption of specie payment, and 
how was the resumption accomplished? (Board.) 

372. Tell what you can of Grant's second administration. 

(Yale.) 

373. Give an account of the Hayes-Tilden controversy. 

(Princeton.) 

374. In what ways was the election of President P. B. Hayes 
unusual? What were the contents of the Bland- Allison Act? 

(Dartmouth.) 

375. What circumstances led to the creation of the Electoral 
Commission of 1877? Under similar circumstances would such 



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a commission be necessary at the present time? If not, why not? 

(California.) 



17. FROM CLEVELAND TO WILSON. 

376. For what political principles did Cleveland stand as Pres- 
ident, and as leader of the Democratic party? Give an account 
of what he did or attempted to do to incorporate them into 
legislation. (Board.) 

377. Give an account of the labor troubles during" Cleveland's 
administrations. (Wesleyan.) 

378. Name the most important events of Cleveland's admin- 
istrations, and give an estimate of Cleveland as President. 

(Brown.) 

379. (a) What were the causes of the War with Spain? 

(b) What effects did the war have upon the United 
States? (Amherst.) 

380. State the causes and results of the Spanish-American War 
of 1898. (Amherst.) 

381. Explain how the recent war with Spain came about, state 
the more important military incidents, and name the territorial 
acquisitions resulting from the war. (Leland Stanford.) 
332. What possessions did the United States acquire by the 
Spanish- American War and how is any one governed? (Yale.) 

383. Explain why we fought the Spanish-American War, and 
with what results in the peace treaty. (Brown.) 

384. What brought about the War with Spain in 1898? How 
did that conflict and its outcome affect the general relations of 
the United States to the rest of the world? (Brown.) 

385. What agreement was made between the United States and 
Cuba at the close of the Spanish War? What have been the 
relations between the two countries since that time? 

(Dartmouth.) 

386. Discuss the new problems which the American people were 
called upon to solve as a result of the Spanish-American War? 

(Board.) 

387. (a) Explain Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward (1) capital, 
(2) labor, (3) conservation. (Wesleyan.) 

(&) Mention three constructive measures or great re- 
forms advocated by Theodore Roosevelt. Describe one of these 
measures or reforms. (Regents.) 

388. Discuss the growth of " imperialism " in the United States 
since 1897. Explain the connection of the country with world 
policy since that date. (Mt. Holyoke.) 



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389. By what steps did the United States acquire the Panama 
Canal Zone and the right to build and fortify the canal? 

(Annapolis.) 

390. How did trusts originate, and what economic advantages 
do they have? Explain the Sherman Anti-trust Law. What im- 
portant decisions have been made under it, and how has it af- 
fected the existence of trusts? What was Roosevelt's plan for 
dealing with these great companies? (Smith.) 

391. What were the various important measures passed by 
President Wilson's first Congress? (Brown.) 

392. Trace the steps by which the United States was drawn 
into the Great War. (Brown.) 

393. Contrast Washington's neutrality proclamation and his at- 
titude on foreign alliances with Wilson's war messages and our 
present cooperation with France and her allies. Justify the 
position taken in each instance. (Regents.) 

394. Give three reasons why the United States entered the 
World War. State tivo problems facing the United States as a 
result of the war. (Regents.) 

395. Discuss at least one constitutional objection raised by the 
opponents of the original covenant of the League of Nations. 

(Board.) 



18. TWENTIETH CENTURY PROBLEMS. 

396. What recent attempts have been made to restrict immi- 
gration? Should immigration be restricted? Justify your opin- 
ion on the question of putting further restrictions upon immi- 
gration. (Board.) 

397. What attitude does our government take in regard to the 
immigration of people from certain countries in Asia? Describe 
the controversies that have arisen on account of our policy. As 
a citizen do you approve of the policy? Give your reasons. 

(Smith.) 

398. Compare the character of the immigration into the United 
States during the decade 1850-1860 with that during the decade 
1900-1910. What restrictions are placed upon immigration into 
the United States at the present time? (Board.) 

399. By what machinery and measures does the Federal Govern- 
ment control the admission of immigrants and regulate their 
naturalization? How may undesirable aliens be dealt with? 

(Board.) 

400. State causes that led to a large immigration to the United 
States during the thirty years preceding the Civil War and show 
the great political and industrial importance to this country of 
such immigration. (Regents.) 



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401. Compare immigration before the Civil War with immigra- 
tion of the present day in the following respects: (a) nations 
represented, (6) causes, (c) enects on labor conditions. 

(Regents.) 

402. Compare colonial immigration with the immigration of the 
last thirty years with respect to (a) causes, (6) character, (c) 
results. Should we now seek to restrict immigration? Justify 
your answer. (Eegents.) 

403. In recent years Congress has imposed restrictions on im- 
migration. Mention two of these restrictions. Give one argu- 
ment for and one argument against further restrictions. 

(Regents.) 

404. What was the main cause in Europe or in America of 
migration to America during each of four of the following pe- 
riods: (a) 1620-1640, (6) 1640-1660, (c) 1840-1860, (d) 1875- 
1890, (e) 1900-1914? (Regents.) 

405. What is meant by Americanization? Give ttco good ef- 
fects and two evil effects of immigration since 1890. How is im- 
migration restricted now? (Regents.) 

406. What is civil service reform and what evils does it at- 
tempt to remove? (California.) 

407. Describe the growth of the movement for civil service re- 
form since 1883, and mention one or more classes of federal 
officers to which the principles of the reform have been applied? 

(Board.) 

408. What was the " free silver " agitation? (Yale.) 

409. Sketch the development in the United States since the 
Civil War of a governmental policy toward railroads, mentioning 
some important laws or judicial decisions. (Board.) 

410. Discuss the federal regulation of (1) railroads, and (2) 
trusts, since 1885. (Brown.) 

411. What attempts has Congress made to regulate "big busi- 
ness" during the past half-century? (Board.) 

412. What has been the action of the United States Congress 
since 1908 on the following questions: (a) the tariff, (&) cur- 
rency, (c) taxation of incomes, (d) the Panama Canal, (e) trusts? 

(Columbia.) 

413. Outline either (a) Tariff history of United States, 1861- 
1913, or (6) Currency history of United States, 1862-1900. 

(Penn.) 

414. Mention five events between 1896 and 1916 which seem to 
you of special importance in American history, and give briefly 
the reasons for the selections you make. (Mass. Tech.) 

415. Outline the events and influences that in the last fifteen 
years have made the United States a world power. (Annapolis.) 



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416. What were the causes of the Spanish-American War? 
Show its influence on the development of American policy, touch- 
ing- on {a) its relation to our policy of isolation, (&) the devel- 
opment of a democratic colonial policy. (Regents.) 

417. Discuss the present government of the Philippine Islands. 

(Brown.) 

418. How were the Philippines acquired by the United States? 
What is their form of government? What problems are now 
connected with our occupation of them? (Penn.) 

419. What part did the United States take in the movement for 
international peace between the Spanish-American War and the 
World War? (Board.) 

420. What part has the United States taken since the Spanish 
War in the movement for international peace? (Board.) 

421. What have been the most important agencies in the devel- 
opment of the West since 1860? What laws have been passed 
by Congress to further this development? (Board.) 

422. What interests has the United States in the problems of 
the Far East? Outline the history of our relations with China. 

(Board.) 

423. A recent editorial on our entrance into the present war 
said : " If the United States is wrong now, it has never been 
right." Justify our entrance into tico wars, including the pres- 
ent one. (Regents.) 

424. Give illustrations of the united efforts of our country in 
the present World War as shown in the following: (a) activities 
of women, (6) subordination of private interests to public serv- 
ice, (c) encouragement of thrift, ((?) organization of our mil- 
itary and naval forces. (Regents.) 

425. What are the terms of the two most recent amendments 
to the Constitution of the United States? Why were they pro- 
posed and adopted? (Penn.) 

426. Mention four conditions of peace advocated by President 
Wilson. (Regents.) 

427. Compare the making of the Constitution in 1787 with the 
making of the League of Nations with respect to two of the fol- 
lowing : (a) one point of disagreement leading to compromise, 
(6) method of ratification, (c) reasons for opposing ratification. 

(Regents.) 

428. Indicate three American problems of reconstruction re- 
sulting from the World War. Describe one of these problems. 

(Regents.) 

429. Mention at least four principles of our national Constitu- 
tion that might be embodied in a constitution for a world state 
or league of nations. (Regents.) 



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430. Describe briefly the organization and the functions of one 
of the following: (a) the Federal Reserve Bank, (&) the Inter- 
state Commerce Commission, (c) the Emergency Fleet Corpora- 
tion, (d) the Inland Waterways Commission. (Regents.) 



19. MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS. 

431. Mention four contributions to the civilization of America 
made by England. Write fully about each of two of these con- 
tributions. (Regents.) 

432. What influences or conditions in European thought and 
life led to American exploration and colonization in the six- 
teenth and seventeenth centuries? (Regents.) 

433. Explain the following: (a) Bacon's Rebellion, (6) May- 
flower Compact, (c) New England Confederation, (d) Albany 
Congress and Plan. (Ohio State.) 

434. What were some of the fundamental rights of Englishmen 
for which the American colonists stood at the American Revolu- 
tion? Name, if you can, any English documents in which these 
rights had been set forth in England. (Board.) 

435. Show why the freedom of the self-governing English col- 
onies led to the American Revolution and why the paternalistic 
government of the French colonies did not lead to a similar 
revolution in New France. (Regents.) 
438. Explain the following, giving a general idea of the con- 
tents and authorship of each document: (a) Albany Plan of 
Union, 1754, (5) Declaration of Independence, 1776, (e) Treaty 
of Peace, 1783. (Williams.) 

437. Show how the policy of " divide and conquer " failed in 
England's attempt to crush the colonies by the Burgoyne cam- 
paign, and how it was successfully applied by the North in the 
Civil War. (Regents.) 

438. Point out three defects in the Articles of Confederation 
and state how those defects were remedied by the Constitution. 

(Yale.) 

439. Write an account of two of the following campaigns: (a) 
Washington's in the Middle States, (&) Scott's in Mexico, (c) 
Grant's on the Mississippi. (Board.) 

440. Compare Hamilton with Jefferson or Webster with Cal- 
houn as representatives of opposing ideals of government. 

(Regents.) 

441. Explain the following: (a) Free Soiler, (6) Anti-Mason, 
(c) States' Rights, (d) Wilmot Proviso, (e) Carpet-Bagger. 

(Williams.) 



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442. What is meant by the Spoils System? When and by whom 
was it introduced? Point out the extent and significance of the 
change. (Princeton.) 

443. What were Webster's arguments against Hayne? In what 
way did he give confidence to the North? How did Hayne try 
to unite the West with the party of Nullification? (Smith.) 

444. What reasons prompted the passage of four of the follow- 
ing laws : Chinese Immigration, Civil Service Eef orm, Alien and 
Sedition, Homestead, Fugitive Slave, Independent Treasury, Na- 
tional Bank? (Board.) 

445. Who were the leading naval heroes of the United States? 
What did each achieve? (Wesleyan.) 

446. Compare the policy of the following Presidents in making 
appointments to office : Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland. 

(Board.) 

447. (a) State the author and title of any book or books which 
you have used in addition to your text-book in connection with any 
one of the following topics: (1) The life of an Englishman con- 
nected with American history. (2) A battle or campaign of the 
American Bevolution. (3) A battle or campaign of the Civil 
War. (4) Slavery. (5) The Tariff. (6) Social life in one of 
the Colonies. 

(Z>) Discuss the topic you have chosen, showing the re- 
sults of your outside reading. (Board.) 

448. Explain each of the following terms : Copperhead, Carpet- 
bagger, Writ of Habeas Corpus, Free-Soiler, Populist, Pet Banks. 

(Regents.) 

449. What were : the Albany Congress, the Embargo, the Ostend 
Manifesto? What States were formed out of the territory once 
belonging to Spain? (Yale.) 

450. Show that you have a definite knowledge of five of the 
following, writing at least four or five lines on each : the Web- 
ster-Hayne Debate, Nullification, the Compromise of 1850, the 
Free Silver Campaign, commission form of government for 
cities, McKinley Tariff Act. (Board.) 

451. Write notes on five of the following: Spanish explorers, 
Monroe Doctrine, Compromise of 1850, campaigns of General 
Grant, John Hay, French and Indian War, the^Tariff of 1832, 
Sherman Anti-Trust Act. (Columbia.) 

452. Explain what is meant by five of the following terms: 
the Star Route Frauds, Mugwumps, the Bland-Allison Act, Wil- 
mot Proviso, Compulsory Arbitration, Copperheads. (Board.) 

453. State what is meant by each of four of the following: 
(a) paper blockade, (6) contraband of war, (c) the "open door" 
policy, (d) the "higher law" doctrine, (e) Ku Klux Klan, (/) 



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resumption of specie payments, (g) preferential ballot, (h) 
Credit Mobilier. (Regents.) 

454. Write brief notes identifying eight of the following 
topics : McCulloch vs. Maryland, excise, referendum, grand jury, 
direct primary, franking privilege, caucus, aliens, "open shop," 
boycott, juvenile court. (Board.) 

455. Write brief explanatory notes on four of the following: 
border states, committees of correspondence, strict construction- 
ist, rule of war of 1756, " fifty-four forty or fight," squatter sov- 
ereignty. (Regents.) 

456. State the chief provision and the chief result of four of 
the following acts: (a) Assumption, (6) Bland-Allison, (c) Elec- 
toral Count, (d) Embargo, (e) Fugitive Slave, (/) Non-Inter- 
course, (g) Reconstruction, (h) Resumption of Specie Payments, 
(i) Kansas-Nebraska, (;') Tenure of Office. (Board.) 

457. Discuss the origin and appropriateness of the following 
names: (a) Pittsburgh (Pa.), (6) Houston (Tex.), (c) New 
York, (d) Jamestown (Va.), (e) Sioux City (Iowa), (/) Mar- 
quette (Wis.), (g) Lake Champlain, (h) Louisiana, (i) Amster- 
dam (N. Y.). (Annapolis.) 

458. What was each of two of the following: (a) the Cumber- 
land Road, (Z>) the Webster- Ashburton Treaty, (c) the Clayton- 
Bulwer Treaty, (d) the Ostend Manifesto, (e) the Credit Mo- 
bilier? (Regents.) 

459. Give accounts of the following: (a) the settlement of 
Georgia, (o) Braddock's expedition, (c) Spanish settlements in 
the present territory of the United States, (d) King Philip's War. 

(Annapolis.) 

460. Copy each of the following names or phrases, adding to 
each a single sentence to indicate why it is important in Amer- 
ican history: (1) Sir Walter Raleigh, (2) Spanish Armada, (3) 
Nathaniel Bacon, (4) Anne Hutchinson, (5) Albany Congress of 
1754, (6) Lewis and Clark, (7) Missouri Compromise, (8) Sub- 
Treasury System, (9) Wilmot Proviso, (10) Tenure of Office Act. 

(Princeton.) 

461. State the importance of each of four of the following: 
(a) The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, (&) the Hartford 
Convention, (c) the Dred Scott Decision, (d) the resumption of 
specie payment, (e) the Federal Reserve Banks. (Regents.) 

462. Show that you have a definite knowledge of the following : 
Thaddeus Stevens, Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Freedmen's Bureau, 
Wilmot Proviso, Seminole War. (Princeton.) 

463. Write a few lines about each of the following: (1) Grover 
Cleveland, (2) Edmund Andros, (3) United States Banks, (4) 
Cyrus W. Field, (5) acquisition of Alaska. (Annapolis.) 



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464. Explain seven of the following terms: Redemptioner ; 
Quitrent ; The Association ; Alien Act ; Right of Search ; Per- 
sonal Liberty Bills ; Know-nothings ; Carpet-bagger ; " Sixteen 
to One." (Harvard.) 

465. Explain briefly the following terms : bill of rights ; spoils 
system; legal tender; referendum. (Ohio State.) 

466. Explain the significance in American history of each of 
four of the following: (a) Compromise Tariff of 1833, (6) discov- 
ery of gold in California, (c) Lincoln-Douglas Debates, (d) Sam 
Houston, (e) William Lloyd Garrison. (Regents.) 

467. Show that you have a definite knowledge of the following : 
Ku Klux Klan, Slidell, Kitchen Cabinet, Know-nothing Party, 
George Rogers Clark. (Princeton.) 

468. Write brief notes on five of the following topics : the 
Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Alexander VI's Bull of Demarcation; 
the Border States ; the Declaratory Act ; Sir Francis Drake ; the 
Embargo; the Independent Treasury Act. (Harvard.) 

469. Explain briefly four of the following terms: (1) Carpet- 
baggers, (2) Mugwumps, (3) Ku Klux Klan, (4) Virginius' Af- 
fair, (5) Venezuela Dispute, (6) Monroe Doctrine. (Annapolis.) 

470. Explain the significance of the following: (a) Big Stick, 
(6) Progressive Republican, (c) Federalist, (d) Free Soilers, 
(e) Thomas Wilson Dorr, (/) Aaron Burr, (g) Webster-Hayne 
Debate, (h) Nullification. (Annapolis.) 

471. Give accounts of the following: (a) the causes and results 
of the War of 1812, (6) the administration of Andrew Jackson, 
(c) the Kansas-Nebraska Act, (d) the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 

(Annapolis.) 

472. State which sections of the United States supported, and 
which opposed, the following, together with the reasons in each 
case: (a) War of 1812, (ft) Tariff Act of 1828, (c) Annexation 
of Texas, (d) Wilmot Proviso. (Mass. Tech.) 

473. How has the history of the United States been affected by 
(a) the Ordinance of 1787, (6) the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 
(c) the discovery of gold in California? (Mass. Tech.) 

474. Mention two Presidents of the United States who have 
died in office. Name in each case the Vice-presidents who suc- 
ceeded to the presidency. In each case explain how the party 
in power was affected by the change. (Princeton.) 

475. What years are covered by the administrations of the Pres- 
idents beginning with Jackson and ending with Taylor? Name 
these Presidents and mention three important events of the pe- 
riod covered by them. (Ohio State.; 

476. In what branch or branches of the Federal Government is 
vested the power to appoint ambassadors, make treaties, protect 



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citizens abroad, command the army and navy, call the militia 
into federal service, declare war, appoint judges to the federal 
court? (Penn.) 

477. Show the effect of (a) the inter-colonial wars on the Amer- 
ican Revolution, (&) the Mexican War on the Civil War. 

(Regents.) 

478. Name three Secretaries of the Treasury and tell under 
what President each served. Give an outline of the services of 
each as Secretaries. (Penn.) 

479. Mention four States west of the Mississippi River over 
which there was a controversy on their admission to the Union. 
Give a brief account of each controversy. (Penn.) 

480. Name six Secretaries of State and tell under what Presi- 
dent each served. Give an outline of the services of two of them 
as Secretaries. (Board.) 

481. How has the policy of the government in regard to the 
use of public lands influenced educational and economic devel- 
opment in the United States? (Board.) 

482. Why did Kansas and Nevada support Bryan for Presi- 
dent in 1896, and why did Massachusetts support McKinley? 

(Board.) 

483. Write an account of the services of foreigners to America 
during either the Revolution or the Civil War. (Regents.) 

484. Discuss the accuracy of two of the following statements : 
(a) America was discovered in 1492. (&) The Declaration of 
Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. (c) With the acquisi- 
tion of the Philippine Islands, the United States became a col- 
onizing power. (Board.) 

485. Make a list, in logical order, of eight or ten titles for 
chapters showing the development of American history from the 
close of the Revolutionary War to the present time. Give dates 
covered by each chapter heading. (Board.) 
488. What have been the policies of California and of the Fed- 
eral Government in regard to Japanese immigration? (Board.) 

487. What have been the chief contributions of the West to 
political platforms and party policies since the Civil War? 

(Board.) 

488. Tell the story of a famous naval engagement in which the 
United States navy has taken part. (Regents.) 

489. Distinguish between " suffrage " and " citizenship." How 
is each obtained? How has the Constitution restricted the regu- 
lation of the suffrage? Mention some ways in which the States 
have restricted suffrage. (Board.) 

490. In what respect did each of three of the following con- 



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tribute toward democracy : the Revolutionary War, the Ordi- 
nance of 1787, the Federal Constitution, the Civil War? Explain 
how one of the three selected made its contribution. (Regents.) 

491. How are members of the President's Cabinet chosen? 
How may they be removed? What suggestions have been made 
to increase the efficiency of Cabinet officers? (Board.) 

492. In which of the departments of the Federal Government 
are five of the following matters treated : Indian affairs, Philip- 
pine affairs, the weather, supervision of corporations, admin- 
istration of immigration laws, administration of pure food laws, 
collection of tariff duties? (Board.) 

493. What were the main events of the presidency of Thomas 
Jefferson? (Johns Hopkins.) 

494. Describe the administration of Andrew Jackson? 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

495. Discuss any important event of Grant's administration. 

(California.) 

496. After reading a textbook, to what primary sources or sec- 
ondary authorities would you turn for more complete informa- 
tion on (a) home life in colonial days, (6) the reconstruction 
period? Give the exact title of tiuo sources or authorities in 
each case. [Do not name textbooks or encyclopedias.] 

(Regents.) 

497. Compare the policies of the following Presidents in making 
appointments to office : Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland. 

(Board.) 

498. Name two great American historians and give the exact 
title of a book or work written by each. Of what period or 
movement in the history of the United States does each of these 
books or works treat? [Do not name text-books or encyclo- 
pedias.] (Regents.) 

499. Discuss General Grant's career as President of the United 
States. Explain the prevalence of corruption in public life di- 
rectly after the Civil War. (Regents.) 

500. Give a history of the settlement of Texas, the Texas Revo- 
lution, and the annexation of Texas to the United States. 

(California.) 

501. Write notes on five of the following: Spanish explorers, 
Monroe Doctrine, Compromise of 1850, Campaigns of General 
Grant, John Hay, French and Indian War, the Tariff of 1832, 
Sherman Anti-Trust Act. (Columbia.) 

502. Mention, with names of inventors, three American inven- 
tions that have had an important influence in the development of 
the United States. Explain the influence of one of these inven- 
tions. (Regents.) 



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503. Write briefly on the origin, organization and work of the 
Supreme Court of the United States, making plain in the dis- 
cussion the importance of this court as a check on the power of 
Congress. (Regents.) 

504. Give an account of the process of nominating and electing 
a President, with particular reference to the campaign of 1916. 

(Regents.) 

505. Compare the President of the United States with the King 
of England with respect to (a) power to check or to promote a 
declaration of war, (&) power to check or to promote legislation. 

(Regents.) 

506. Show the influence on American history of each of tivo of 
the following: (a) the Jesuit missions, (&) the fur trade, (c) the 
discovery of gold in California, (d) the reaper and binder. 

(Regents.) 

507. What geographic and political problems faced the Amer- 
ican people in their efforts to establish a unified government in 
1787? (Regents.) 

508. Write an account, not exceeding seventy-five words, of one 
of the following battles, explaining the circumstances under 
which the battle was fought and giving its historic importance ; 
pay special attention to clearness and conciseness of statement : 
(a) Perry's victory on Lake Erie, (&) the battle of Gettysburg, 
(c) the battle of Long Island. (Regents.) 

509. Name tivo great social or political reforms since the pe- 
riod of the Civil War. Write fully on one of these reforms. 

(Regents.) 

510. How did geographical conditions affect the history of (a) the 
early settlements, (&) the revolutionary struggle, (c) the 
struggle for and against slavery? (Board.) 



20. BIOGRAPHIES. 

511. Give an account of the life of some great American, based 
on a standard biography. Name the author of this biography 
and indicate his estimate of the public services of this great 
American. [Pupils whose answers do not show they have read 
the biography will receive no credit for attempting this ques- 
tion.] (Regents.) 

512. Write on Roger Williams, notice particularly — (a) his 
difficulties with Massachusetts, (b) his life in Rhode Island, (c) 
his ideas. (Leland Stanford.) 

513. Give a sketch of Franklin's training. Indicate the kinds 
of public service he performed and tell of any other way in 
which he was useful to his fellow countrymen. (Board.) 



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514. Discuss the public career of George Washington before the 
Revolutionary War. (Board.) 

515. Write on Alexander Hamilton, treating the following 
topics: (a) writings, (&) financial measures, (c) political ideas, 
(d) opponents. (Board.) 

516. What services did Hamilton render to the United States 
after the Revolution? (Board.) 

517. Tell what you can of the career of Thomas Jefferson. 

(Yale.) 

518. Was Jefferson's public life a success? Give reasons. 

(Harvard.) 

519. Write on Thomas Jefferson as president and statesman. 

(Harvard.) 

520. What public services did Jefferson render before he be- 
came President? For what principles did he stand as candidate 
for the presidency in 1800? (Board.) 

521. State in regard to Jefferson (a) his political principles, 
(6) the achievements of his administration. (Board.) 

522. Write on the life and public services of Henry Clay. 

(Princeton.) 

523. Describe the career and political teaching of John C. Cal- 
houn. (Yale.) 

524. Tell about the public career and services of Andrew 
Jackson. (Amherst.) 

525. Explain in as great detail as possible why Daniel Webster 
ranks as one of America's great statesmen? (Princeton.) 

526. Trace the public career of Stephen A. Douglas. (Board.) 

527. Write on Stephen A. Douglas, stating his ideas on slavery, 
and telling the story of his political debates with Lincoln, and 
their political result. (Leland Stanford.) 

528. What was the political importance of Abraham Lincoln? 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

529. ISame three great American statesmen who were unsuc- 
cessful candidates for the presidency and in the case of each 
indicate what training and experience specially fitted him for 
this office. (Regents.) 

530. Write on Abraham Lincoln, treating the following topics : 
(a) Attitude toward slavery, (Z>) reason for Emancipation Proc- 
lamation, (c) speeches, (d) personality. (Board.) 

531. (a) Give a sketch of Lincoln's career prior to his election 
as President. (6) What was his policy with regard to the 
emancipation of the negroes? (Amherst.) 

532. Sketch the life of Grover Cleveland. (Wesleyan.) 

533. Describe the career of Theodore Roosevelt. (Dartmouth.) 

534. What did Mr. Roosevelt accomplish when he was Presi- 
dent, 1901-1909? (Brown.) 



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535. Select four of the following and explain briefly but 
definitely the part each played in the history of America. (1) 
Cartier, (2) Verrazano, (3) Raleigh, (4) La Salle, (5) Henry 
Hudson, (6) Bradford, (7) Ribaut, (8) Coronado. 

(Annapolis.) 

536. State the services rendered to America by — (a) Chat- 
ham, (&) Burke, (c) Lafayette, (cZ) Steuben. (Mass. Tech.) 

537. State the principal services to America, during the Amer- 
ican Revolution, of two of the following leaders : Samuel Adams, 
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson. (Board.) 

538. What do the following names stand for in American His- 
tory : Roger Williams, Sir Wm. Berkeley, Patrick Henrv, John 
Marshall? (Ohio State.) 

539. What do the following names stand for in American His- 
tory: Wm. Penn, Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Adams, John Jay? 

(Ohio State.) 

540. Compare the governmental ideas of Hamilton and Jeffer- 
son. (Ohio State.) 

541. Compare John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson as to 
(1) character, (2) principles, (3) political services. 

(Ohio State.) 

542. What does the United States Government owe to Alex- 
ander Hamilton, James Madison, and Henry Clay? 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

543. State briefly the significance of Alexander Hamilton, Henry 
Clay, John Marshall, William H. Seward, William Penn. 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

544. Name an invention credited to each of five of the follow- 
ing: (1) Morse, (2) Fulton, (3) Eli Whitney, (4) McCormick, 
(5) Ericsson, (6) Bell, (7) Hoe, (8) Westinghouse. (Annapolis.) 

545. Give an account (not less than one page) of the life and 
public services of two of the following : Daniel Webster, John 
C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin 
Franklin. (Annapolis.) 

546. What were the chief acts of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster? 

(Johns Hopkins.) 

547. Give an account of the political career of one of the fol- 
lowing and indicate his attitude on each of two national issues : 
Hamilton, Webster, Lincoln. (Regents.) 

548. Write fully on three of the following men: John Paul 
Jones, Carl Schurz, William H. Seward, John Adams, William 
McKinley. (Board.) 

549. Write fully on two of the following men : Roger Williams, 
Carl Schurz, Stephen A. Douglas, Grover Cleveland. (Amherst.) 

550. Give a brief outline of the public life of two of the fol- 



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lowing men: Salmon P. Chase, John Quincy Adams, John Mar- 
shall. (Harvard.) 

551. Write fully on any two of the following: Koger Williams, 
Thomas Benton, James Madison, Stephen A. Douglas, John Jay, 
John Sherman, Grover Cleveland. (Harvard.) 

552. Name the important event and policies with which — (1) 
Alexander Hamilton, (2) Henry Clay, (3) John C. Calhoun, (4) 
Daniel Webster, (5) Andrew Jackson, and (6) Martin Van 
Buren were identified. (Trinity.) 

553. Write fully on the public services of any one of the fol- 
lowing men : U. S. Grant, John Marshall, Theodore Eoosevelt. 

(Board.) 

554. Who were Salmon P. Chase, Charles Summer, Jas. G. 
Blaine, Samuel Tilden? (Ohio State.) 

555. State of what party and in what year seven of the follow- 
ing men were nominees for the presidency: John Adams, John 
Quincy Adams, James G. Blaine, Henry Clay, Stephen A. Doug- 
las, John C. Fremont, Horace Greeley, Winfield S. Hancock, 
George B. McClellan, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Samuel J. 
Tilden. (Board.) 
558. Who were John C. Calhoun, Meriwether Lewis, Nathaniel 
Greene, Oliver Perry, Stephen A. Douglas? (Johns Hopkins.) 

557. Show how each of four of the following performed a 
great service for this country: Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin 
Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, De Witt Clinton, Eli Whitney, John 
Marshall, Henry Clay, Horace Mann, Samuel F. B. Morse, Cyrus 
McCormick, Susan B. Anthony, Ulysses S. Grant. (Regents.) 

558. Discuss as fully as possible the influences of the following 
as leaders of public opinion: Jefferson, Lincoln, Cleveland. 

(Regents.) 

559. Write brief notes on three of the following, showing why 
their achievements entitle them to be ranked as noted Amer- 
icans : Samuel Adams, Henry Clay, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cyrus 
McCormick, Thomas A. Edison, Richard Hoe, Philip Sheridan. 

(Regents.) 

560. Name and characterize three political leaders in the period 
1880-90. (Harvard.) 



21. MAP QUESTIONS. 

561. Indicate on the map — (a) the territorial claims of the 
colonies, (&) the steps in our expansion toward the southwest. 

(Harvard.) 

562. (a) Mark on the map the settled areas of the U. S. in 
1860. (6) Mark on the map the lines of three railroads from the 
Middle West to the Pacific, (c) Describe with the aid of the map 



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the campaigns of any whole year of the Eevolutionary War. 

(Harvard.) 
563. With the aid of the map, show any three of the follow- 
ing 1 : (a) the territory claimed by Massachusetts in the period 
of the Revolution, (b) the route of Lewis and Clark, (c) the 
settled areas of the U. S. in 1830, (d) the states where the 
Federalist party was strongest, (e) any full year's campaign in 
the War of 1812 or in the Civil W T ar. (Harvard.) 

584. Mark on the outline map, as accurately as possible, five 
of the following : Battle of Bull Bun, Hudson River, region oc- 
cupied by the Iroquois Indians before the Revolution, Kansas, 
boundary of the disputed territory which caused the Mexican 
War, Plymouth. (Dartmouth.) 

565. Indicate on the map: (a) the States where slavery ex- 
isted in 1860, (&) the States where cotton was the chief crop, 
(<?) the States formed out of the Northwest Territory. 

(Williams.) 

566. Show on map the states or parts of states (not including 
West Virginia) which, being still members of the Confederate 
States of America, were in possession of federal troops at the 
time of the battle of Gettysburg. (Board.) 

567. Indicate on the map the territory annexed after the War 
of 1812. Give dates. (Williams.) 

568. Mark the name and location of five of the following 
places: (1) The oldest Spanish settlement in the U. S.; (2) The 
place where the Pilgrim Fathers settled in 1620; (3) The fort 
taken by Ethan Allen in 1775; (4) The first capital of the 
Confederate States of America; (5) The river discovered by 
Cartier; (6) The last of the Thirteen Colonies to be founded; 
(7) The place captured by Grant in July 1863. (Board.) 

569. Mark on map (a) the Mason and Dixon line, (&) the 
southern and eastern limits of the Northwest Territory, and 
(c) the Missouri Compromise line. (Board.) 

570. On map mark as definitely as possible the boundaries of 
the Oregon territory in 1850. In your answer book indicate 
how the northern boundary was determined. (Board.) 

571. Mark on map the boundaries of the states which were the 
scene of military operations during the Civil War, distinguishing 
(a) the states which first united to form the Confederate States 
of America, (b) the states which later joined the Confederacy, 
and (c) the slave states that remained in the Union. (Board.) 

572. On map indicate as accurately as possible the territorial 
gains of the United States in North America since 1783, showing 
for each the date and method of acquisition. On map indicate 
what States were at war with the United States in January, 
1863, and in your answer book tell what became of the slaves 
therein. Also indicate on the same map other states where 



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there were slaves at that time, and in your answer book tell 
what became of these slaves. (Board.) 

573. On map indicate as accurately as possible the possessions 
which the United States owns outside the limits of the states. 
In your answer book state briefly the circumstances by which 
she came into control of each of these possessions. (Board.) 

574. Mark on map such portions of the following parallels of 
latitude as were at some time parts of the boundary of the 
United States: 31° N.L., 42° N.L., 49° N.L., 54° 40' N.L. By what 
treaty was each accepted as a boundary? (Board.) 

575. Indicate on the outline map the accessions of territory 
to the United States from 1775 to 1897, explaining how each 
came to be acquired. (Harvard.) 

576. Draw a map of that part of North America lying south 
of the northern boundary of the United States. On this map 
trace one important route by which explorers and settlers gained 
access to (a) the Mississippi valley, (Z>) the Pacific seaboard. 

(Regents.) 

577. Indicate on map: (a) the grants made to the London and 
Plymouth Companies, and (6) the claims of the states to west- 
ern lands in 1783. In your answer book explain how the claims 
were related to the grants. (Board.) 

578. Show on map the various portions of territory affected 
by the compromise of 1850, and in your answer book state the 
effect of the compromise upon each portion. (Board.) 

579. Draw an outline map of North America — locate two great 
mountain ranges and locate three of the principal rivers of 
the eastern coast. Then state briefly the explorations and set- 
tlement of European nations on some one of these rivers. 

(Leland Stanford.) 

580. On a map of the United States (a) indicate, with names, 
the location in different parts of the country of seven different 
important industries characteristic of the sections in which they 
are located, (o) locate, with names, six of the following: St. 
Louis, Seattle, Memphis, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Bridge- 
port. (Regents.) 

581. On map indicate approximately the areas west of the 
Allegheny Mountains which were settled between 1783 and 1803, 
and between 1803 and 1820. In your answer book account for 
the rapidity with which the later portions were settled. 

(Board.) 

582. Locate and name the site of four of the following places : 
The first capital of the Southern Confederacy. The place where 
the treaty was signed which ended the Russo-Japanese War. 
The Pullman strike. The first permanent Spanish settlement in 
America. Grant's victory of July, 1863. Copper mining districts. 

(Board.) 



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583. Mark on map: (a) Mason and Dixon's line and boundary- 
lines established in 1818 and 1819, writing the date on each. 
(&) The area in which slavery was prohibited by Missouri Com- 
promise, (c) The location and name of four of the following: 
An American post surrendered to the British by Gen. Hull, 1812; 
site of Cornwallis surrender in 1781 ; first permanent French 
settlement on the St. Lawrence ; place of Lee's surrender ; first 
Confederate state restored by Congress to full privileges in the 
Union ; a state formed out of another state. (Board.) 

584. Locate and give the historical importance of Jamestown, 
Yorktown, Rio Grande River, Gettysburg. (Annapolis.) 

585. On a map of the United States (a) indicate, with names, 
the sections settled by the Dutch, Swedes, English, French and 
Spanish, (&) locate, with names, five of the cities mentioned in 
question 1. (Regents.) 

586. Show on map the extent of French occupation in North 
America about 1750, locating and naming the principal settle- 
ments and forts. (Board.) 

587. Show on map the territorial claims of England, France, 
Spain, Holland, and Sweden in North America in the seventeenth 
century. (Board.) 

588. Draw a map of the United States and on it indicate the 
territory acquired since the 18th century. State from whom 
each section was acquired. (Regents.) 

589. Indicate on the outline map the English, French, and 
Spanish frontiers in 1750, those of 1770, the boundaries of the 
United States in 1790 and 1847. Locate the Dominion of New 
England and the capital of the United States in 1795. 

(Columbia.) 

590. Locate by map or otherwise the fighting front in western 
Europe during 1917 and 1918. Locate also five of the following: 
Chateau-Thierry, the Argonne, the St. Mihiel salient, St. Quentin, 
Brest, Sedan, the Marne. (Regents.) 
i>9l. Mark on map the boundaries of the English, French, and 
Spanish possessions in North America as fixed by treaty in 1763. 

(Board.) 

592. Mark on map the route of Braddock's march, the Cumber- 
land Road, the western boundary of Maryland, the Union Pacific 
Railroad, the settlements of the Mormons. (Board.) 

593. Locate on the map five important French posts in America, 
east of the Mississippi, at the beginning of the last French and 
Indian war, and the routes followed by the French and English 
forces in the principal campaigns of that war. (Board.) 

594. On map indicate as accurately as possible: (a) the Loui- 
siana purchase, (b) the states formed out of the Oregon ter- 
ritory, (c) the border states which did not secede from the 
Union. (Board.) 



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595. Mark the boundary between the United States and the 
Spanish possessions as fixed by the Treaty of 1819. (Board.) 

596. On map mark as definitely as possible four of the follow- 
ing: Gettysburg, Yorktown, Gadsden Purchase, both Kansas and 
Nebraska as outlined by the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854, site 
of the earliest American college. (Board.) 

597. Locate on map and give historical importance of Quebec, 
Brandywine, Harper's Ferry, Louisiana Purchase, Chickamauga. 
State briefly the chief facts about each of the following : Naviga- 
tion Acts, Aaron Burr, Grangers, Free Silver, Initiative and 
Referendum. (Yale.) 

598. On map indicate as accurately as possible : (a) the bound- 
aries of the United States at the close of the War for Independ- 
ence, (5) the territory "dedicated to freedom" by the legisla- 
tion of 1820. (Board.) 

599. Mark the route covered by the army of Burgoyne in 
1777 ; and shade the areas definitely added to the United States 
in decade from 1845 to 1855 inclusive. (Board.) 

600. (a) Shade any part of the present United States held in 
joint occupation with a foreign power in 1840, (&) shade and 
name the states whose electoral vote was in doubt in the election 
of 1876. (Board.) 



22. TERRITORIAL GROWTH. 

601. Give the original boundaries of the United States. 

(Ohio State.) 

602. Name seven important additions that have been made to 
the original territorial limits of the United States and tell in 
whose administration each occurred. (Annapolis.) 

603. Name the successive enlargements made to the territory 
of the United States during the nineteenth century with the date 
of each. (Princeton.) 

604. Under what treaties has the United States acquired for- 
eign territory by purchase? State what was acquired in each 
instance. (Board.) 

605. Describe briefly the expansion of the United States by 
war, purchase, exploration, and treaty, from the time of the 
thirteen colonies to the present day. (Annapolis.) 

606. What territories did the United States acquire between 
1789 and 1829? Give the date of each acquisition and name of 
the power from which obtained. (Ohio State.) 

607. Enumerate the acquisitions of territory made by the 
United States before 1860. In whose administration and by what 
means was each made? (Annapolis.) 

608. What was the "Northwest Territory" ? How did it get 



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into the possession of the United States? What was the North- 
west Ordinance? (Dartmouth.) 

609. How did the United States acquire Texas? California? 
Alaska? (Johns Hopkins.) 

610. Give a history of the settlement of Texas, the Texas Revo- 
lution, and the annexation of Texas to the United States. 

(California.) 

611. Under what circumstances and when was the state of 
California admitted into the Union? (Board.) 

612. The causes and results of the acquisition of Oregon. 

(Harvard.) 

613. Name the portions of North America that Spain has 
claimed at any time. Explain the loss of these possessions, in 
so far as such loss was connected with the history of the U. S. 

(Board.) 

614. What territory has the United States acquired from Spain 
and when? (Yale.) 

615. In what three cases have treaties added territory to the 
United States without a war, territory to which the Uni'sd 
States had no claim? State the circumstances under which 
these treaties were made. (Board.) 

616. Name the dependencies or outlying possessions of the 
United States, and explain briefly how each was acquired. 

(Annapolis.) 

617. What possessions did the United States acquire by the 
Spanish- American War and how is any one governed? (Yale.) 

618. The acquisition and government of the Philippines. 

(Columbia.) 

619. (a) Write a list of the principal topics in the history of 
the Trans-Mississippi West before 1803, (&) discuss one of these 
topics. (California.) 

620. Describe three events that promoted the settlement of 
the West before the Civil War. (Yale.) 

621. What have been the chief periods of western migration 
in our history and what have been the chief incentive in each? 
In what different ways has the western immigrant been able 
to get land? (Board.) 

622. Of what public domain has the United States had to dis- 
pose? What has been the general policy of the Government in 
disposing of it? (Brown.) 

623. Give reason for the acquisition of each of four of the fol- 
lowing : Florida, Texas, Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, 
Danish West Indies, Panama Canal Zone. (Regents.) 

624. Under what circumstances was the territory north of the 
Ohio and east of the Mississippi acquired by the United States? 
Name five states formed from this territory. (Regents.) 



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625. When and how did the U. S. gain possession of the fol- 
lowing: (a) Hawaii, (&) Panama Canal Zone, (c) Virgin Is- 
lands, (d) Yap. (Wesleyan.) 



23. FOREIGN RELATIONS. 

626. Why did the United States in the first 50 years of its 
national life adopt a policy of isolation? Show the relation of 
this policy to each of two of the following: (a) Washington's 
Farewell Address, (o) the acquisition of the Philippines, (c) 
our relations with China since 1900, (d) our part in the World 
War. (Regents.) 

627. What events in our early history established friendly 
relations between the U. S. and France? Mention three oc- 
casions on which these friendly relations have been temporarily 
disturbed and describe one such incident. (Board.) 

628. Mention four events since 1776 that have brought the 
United States and France into friendly or unfriendly relations. 
Describe one of these events. (Regents.) 

629. Mention at least four disputes with Great Britain since 
1789, stating the time, the matter at issue, and the terms of 
settlement. (Penn.) 

630. Compare American international relations during the pe- 
riod 1800-1815 with those of today, showing points of similarity. 
Mention two specific problems of each period. (Regents.) 

631. What have been the subjects of diplomatic dispute or 
controversy between the United States and Great Britain since 
1815? How has each been adjusted? (Trinity.) 

632. Indicate the position taken by the United States as to 
neutrality during the wars of the French Revolution (1792- 
1815), in the Civil War (1861-1865), and in the European war 
of 1914-1915. What was Great Britain's record on neutrality 
during the Civil War in the United States? (Board.) 

633. Sketch American foreign relations under President Mon- 
roe. (Yale.) 

634. Write on the Monroe Doctrine, covering four of the fol- 
lowing points: (a) the circumstances leading to its issuance, 
(J)) the main principle proclaimed by it, (c) its conflict with 
our imperialistic tendencies prior to 1860, (d) the attitude of 
South American countries toward it, (e) its present significance. 

(Regents.) 

635. Write on the development of the Monroe Doctrine since 
the Civil War with specific reference to two of the following: 
(a) Mexico, (6) Venezuela, (c) the islands of the Caribbean 
sea. (Regents.) 

636. What is the Monroe Doctrine? Discuss one of the fol- 



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lowing in relation to the Monroe Doctrine : Venezuela affair, 
Magdalena Bay incident, San Domingo incident. (Regents.) 

637. (a) State the terms of the "Monroe Doctrine" as con- 
tained in President Monroe's message of 1823. (6) "What was 
President Cleveland's application of the doctrine in 1895? 

(Board.) 

638. What is the Monroe Doctrine? What bearing did it have 
on the Venezuelan controversy? (Yale.) 

639. Why did Bismarck call the Monroe Doctrine " an inter- 
national impertinence " ? How was the doctrine extended in 
its meaning by Roosevelt? Over what countries bordering on 
the Caribbean Sea has the United States virtual or actual pro- 
tectorates through the application of the extension of the Monroe 
Doctrine? (Regents.) 

640. What problems were settled by each of three treaties be- 
tween the United States and England after 1800? (Regents.) 

641. Distinguish between arbitration and the making of a 
treaty. Mention tico important treaties between the United 
States and a European nation and state the main question 
settled by each. (Regents.) 

642. Name two treaties by which the United States acquired 
territory before 1820. Dates and circumstances. (Yale.) 

643. Explain the meaning and origin of the phrase " fifty-four 
forty or fight." (Annapolis.) 

644. Give illustrations of the importance of Cuba in the his- 
tory of the U. S. (Harvard.) 

645. Give a brief account of our relations with Cuba. Include 
in your account (a) the Ostend Manifesto, (6) the Spanish- 
American War, (c) our present relations with Cuba. (Regents.) 

646. Sketch the relations of the United States with Cuba as 
sug-gested by the following expressions: (a) Ostend manifesto, 
(&) filibustering, (c) Piatt amendment. (Board.) 

647. Give an account of two instances of international arbitra- 
tion to which the United States has been a party since the Civil 
War. (Yale.) 

648. Describe (a) the attitude of Russia toward the United 
States between 1860 and 1870, (&) the attitude of Germany to- 
ward the United States in the Spanish-American War. Mention 
one event to illustrate each case. (Regents.) 

649. In what cases in the nineteenth century has the United 
States resorted to arbitration? Give an account of one of these 
cases, indicating the question at stake, its importance, and the 
result. Mention other ways in which the United States has 
shown interest in arbitration. (Board.) 

650. Enumerate three events since 1890 which have emphasized 
the position of the United States as a " world power," and de- 



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scribe particularly one of them. Give the dates of the events 
mentioned. ( Board. ) 

651. Sketch the relations of the United States with China and 
Japan. (Board.) 

652. State how four of the following settled the disputes be- 
tween the United States and Great Britain: Clayton-Bulwer 
Treaty, Geneva Award, Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, Jay's Treaty, 
Oregon Treaty, Venezuela Commission. (Board.) 

653. Explain the traditional policy of the U. S. toward the 
Latin-American countries ; toward Europe. Have they been 
changed during the Wilson administration? (Wesleyan.) 

654. Name three incidents between 1898 and 1914, showing Ger- 
many's attitude toward the United States. Why did the United 
States enter the recent World War? Mention four of the terms 
of the Treaty of Versailles. (Regents.) 

655. Describe the relations of the United States and Mexico 
during three separate periods in the century from 1815 to 1915. 

(Regents.) 



24. POLITICAL PARTIES. 

656. What political parties were formed during Washington's 
administration? State their policies. (Yale.) 

657. State (a) what classes of society and (&) what sections 
of the country supported the Federalist party, and explain why 
such was the case. (Board.) 

658. State the chief causes of the downfall of the Federalist 
party. (Board.) 

659. What were the principles and policies of the following 
parties : Federalist, Democratic, Republican, Whig, Douglas 
Democratic? (Penn.X 

660. Show how the growth of the West from 1815 to 1840 af- 
fected political parties and political issues. (Board.) 

661. What national policies were supported by the Whig party? 
When and why did this party disappear from our history? 

(California.) 

662. Name and characterize four Whig leaders in the period 
1835-1840. (Harvard.) 

663. Give a brief account of the origin and history of the Whig 
party. Name the Whig presidents and two other leaders of the 
party. (Bryn Mawr.) 

664. Give an account of the principles and career of the Whig 
party, 1833-1852. (Mass. Tech.) 

665. Give an account of the rise and fall of either the Federalist 
party or the Whig party. Include in your account (a) important 



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policies, (6) achievements, (c) prominent leaders, (<Z) causes 
of downfall. (Regents.) 

666. Outline the steps by which political parties were forced 
between 1830 and 1861 to declare themselves in regard to slavery. 

(Board.) 

667. Describe the origin of the present Republican party. 

(Board.) 

668. Discuss the origin of the Republican party and the part 
which it played in the elections of 1856 and 1860. (Brown.) 

669. When, where and as a result of what conditions did the 
present Republican party originate? With what candidate and 
what platform did it make its first national campaign? 

(Board.) 

670. Give the history of the present Republican party from its 
founding up to the present time, stating its origin, the principles 
on which it was founded, its achievements and its present 
strength in the country. (Regents.) 

671. Sketch the history of the People's or Populist party. 

(Brown.) 

672. What was the attitude of political parties towards (a) 
the war of 1812, (&) the Civil War, (c) the war with Spain? 
How did the wars affect the parties? (Board.) 

673. Sketch the history of the Democratic party since the 
Civil War. (Board.) 

674. For what issues has the Democratic party stood since 
1890? (Yale.) 

675. Give some account of the formation of the present Demo- 
cratic party. (Yale.) 



25. ELECTIONS. 

676. In what three presidential elections was the final choice 
of the President settled either by the House of Representatives 
or by both houses of Congress? Narrate the important facts 
of any one of these and explain the clause or clauses of the Con- 
stitution which were concerned in the controversy. (Board.) 

677. Give an account of the issues and the candidates in the 
election of 1800. (Board.) 

678. Point out the features of the Presidential election of 
1824 in which it differs from normal Presidential elections. 

(Princeton.) 

679. What was the meaning of the statement in the Demo- 
cratic platform of 1844: "The Reannexation of Texas and the 
Reoccnpation of Oregon"? (Board.) 

680. Who were the candidates for the presidency in 1860? 



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What party did each represent? Who won? What were the 
reasons for his victory? (Board.) 

681. What issues and problems did the elections of 1876 pre- 
sent? (Harvard.) 

682. The eight to seven decisions (of the disputed election of 
President Hayes) became a byword in politics, and they were 
generally regarded as proof that even members of the Supreme 
Court were controlled by party bias. But this discreditable re- 
sult was more than offset by the notable spectacle of half a 
nation submitting quietly, even in time of intense party feeling, 
to a decision that had the form of law. Rarely, in any country, 
has free government been subjected to such a strain — or with- 
stood one so triumphantly. 

With reference to the above quotation, describe (a) the con- 
ditions that led to the appointment of an electoral commission, 
(6) the composition of this commission, (c) the character and 
influence of its decision. (Regents.) 

683. Give an account of the election of 1896. (Yale.) 

684. Give an account of the presidential campaign of 1900, 
naming the important candidates, explaining the issues and 
noting the results of the election. (Board.) 

685. Write on three of the following elections: 1800, 1824, 
1840, 1860, 1876, 1896. (Columbia.) 

686. Give an account of three of the following presidential 
campaigns: 1828, 1860, 1876, 1896, noting candidates and posi- 
tion of each party on the chief issues of the period. (Penn.) 

687. Who was chosen president in 1824? 1854? 1884? 

(Ohio State.) 

688. Who was chosen president in 1828? 1848? 1868? 

(Ohio State.) 

689. The presidential elections of 1884, 1888, and 1892. 

(Harvard.) 

690. What issues were prominent in the presidential cam- 
paigns of 1876, 1896, 1912? (Brown.) 



26. ECONOMIC QUESTIONS. 

691. Give the dates of three commercial crises in the United 
States during the nineteenth century, and write a concise ac- 
count of one of the crises. (Board.) 

692. What were the leading causes of the panic of 1837? Of 
1860-1861? (Board.) 

693. How did the national banking system established during 
the Civil War differ from the National Bank incorporated in 
1791? (Board.) 



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694. Tell what you know of the history of the first and second 
United States Banks. How did they differ from the present 
Federal Keserve Bank? (Wesleyan.) 

695. Trace the rise of labor unions. Are they beneficial to 
the community? (Board.) 

696. What is meant by the resumption of specie payment, and 
how was the resumption accomplished? (Board.) 

697. Mention two periods in which the tariff has been a sec- 
tional issue, and give an account of events in one of them. 

(Board.) 

698. Mention, with approximate dates, periods in the history 
of the United States when protection of home industries by a 
high tariff has been a political policy of the government. Ex- 
plain why so much anxiety and agitation have existed in this 
country at the prospect of a lowering of the tariff. (Regents.) 

699. State the difference between a tariff tax and an income 
tax. Which in your judgment is better? Why? (Board.) 

700. Show the effect on the settlement of the West of each of 
four of the following: (a) the steamboat, (6) the railroad, (c) 
the Methodist circuit rider, (d) the McCormick reaper, (e) 
European emigration. (Regents.) 

701. Mention two inventions since the Civil War that have 
improved each of the following: (a) home life, (o) agriculture, 
(c) transportation, (d) communication, (e) business life. 
What has been the effect of these inventions on American his- 
tory? (Regents.) 

702. Trace the development of means of transportation in the 
United States as follows: (a) in the colonies, (&) from 1800 
to 1830, (c) in modern times. (Regents.) 

703. Answer both (a) and (b) : (a) What section of the 
United States was developed in large measure by each of the 
following : the Cumberland road, the Erie canal, the Oregon trail 
and the Santa Fe trail, the steamboat? (b) What plans of 
dealing with the railroad situation were suggested in 1919 by 
(a) Congress, (o) the railroad employees? (Regents.) 

704. Mention two types of transportation facilities developed 
during the first half of the 19th century. Show their influence 
on (a) the industrial growth of the east, (b) the great westward 
movement. (Regents.) 

705. Sketch the history of railroads in the United States. In- 
clude (a) the beginnings of railroad construction, (b) tivo 
periods of special growth, (c) land grants, (d) governmental 
regulation. (Regents.) 

706. Explain why the building of railways previous to 1860 
progressed so much more rapidly in the North than in the South 
and discuss the influence of this fact on the industrial and com- 
mercial development of both sections. (Regents.) 



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707. Compare the commercial conditions that underlay the 
building of the Erie canal with those that led the United States 
to undertake the construction of the Panama canal. (Regents.) 

708. Describe the influence on our merchant marine of (a) the 
Napoleonic wars, (&) the development of iron and steel steam- 
ships, (c) the Civil War, (d) the present world war. (Regents.) 

709. Explain, with illustrations, (a) our dependence on British 
manufacturing before the War of 1812, (6) our dependence on 
German manufacturing before the present World War, (c) how 
we solved the problem in each instance. (Regents.) 

710. Write on the following features of our foreign commerce 
since the Civil War: (a) relative importance of our agricul- 
tural and manufactured exports, (b) effect of our high tariffs 
on foreign commerce, (c) consuls and their duties, (d) the secre- 
tary of commerce and his duties. (Regents.) 



27. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. 

711. What are the chief duties of the United States Supreme 
Court? Discuss one historic decision of that court. 

(California.) 

712. What was the nature of two of the following decisions of 
the United States Supreme Court? What is the constitutional 
importance of one decision? (a) Bred Scott Case. (b)McCul- 
loch vs. Maryland, (c) Dartmouth College Case. (Board.) 

713. Discuss the Dred Scott Decision. (Board.) 

714. Mention at least two cases of political opposition to the 
Supreme Court of the U. S. and explain fully the nature of the 
opposition in each case. (Board.) 

715. What was the Northern Securities decision? Why was 
it important? (Wesleyan.) 



PART II.— CIVICS. 

Many questions in Paet I, American History, are also ques- 
tions on Civil Government and Civics. Such questions are not 
definitely repeated in Part II. The student is particularly re- 
ferred to the Table of Contents concerning sections 
9. The Constitution Questions 171-225 

18. Twentieth Century Problems Questions 396-430 

19. Miscellaneous Questions Questions 431-510 

24. Political Parties Questions 656-675 



28. GENERAL QUESTIONS. 

716. Democracy in the United States is said to be a gradual 
evolution. Show one definite advance made in democracy 
during the administration of (a) Jefferson, (6) Jackson, (c) 
Garfield-Arthur, (d) Wilson. (Regents.) 

717. What is the difference between a federal republic and a 
centralized republic? (Regents.) 

718. Under what provision or provisions of the Constitution has 
Congress power to pass laws regulating passenger traffic on rail- 
ways? What limitations are there on this power? (Harvard.) 

719. Give the six purposes for making the Constitution as stated 
in the Preamble. (Regents.) 

720. May the State of California pass a law prohibiting the 
importation of opium from China? May Congress levy a tax 
of $2 per head on all aliens living in the United States? May 
Congress pass a law forbidding the exaction of more than 6% 
interest on mortgages within the District of Columbia and apply 
this to mortgages already in force? Give your reasons in each 
case. (Harvard.) 

721. Mention three rights that the United States Constitution 
guarantees to the individual. (Regents.) 

722. State the difference between a tariff tax and an income 
tax. Which in your judgment is better? Why? (Board.) 

723. Mention three sources from which the federal government 
receives money. State two chief purposes for which it spends 
money. (Regents.) 

724. Explain the difference between direct and indirect taxa- 
tion. What are the chief forms of direct taxation by the na- 
tional government to which Americans are subject? (Board.) 

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725. In the making of a treaty what are the powers of (a) 
the president, (&) the senate? (Regents.) 

726. Explain the difference between making a treaty and re- 
sorting to arbitration. Give the provisions of two treaties and 
two arbitration settlements since the Civil War. (Board.) 

727. Give two provisions contained in the so-called Bill of 
Eights (or first 10 amendments) of the Constitution of the 
United States. (Regents.) 

728. What amendments to the Constitution have been adopted 
since 1792? What were the causes and provisions of each? 

(Wesley an.) 

729. Give a brief account of all the amendments to the Con- 
stitution with which you are familiar. (Dartmouth.) 

730. Name the department of the federal government that has 
charge of each of five of the following : passports, manufacture 
of money, pensions, reclamation service, forest rangers, light- 
houses, immigration, Indian affairs, weather bureau, money 
orders. (Regents.) 

731. Mention several important changes in the government of 
the United States which have been prominently discussed since 
1900? What are the arguments for and against two of these? 
What changes have been adopted? (Board.) 

732. Could a president be elected by a minority of the total num- 
ber of persons voting at a presidential election? Give your 
reasons. (Board.) 

733. State three points of likeness and two points of difference 
between the powers of the president and those of the governor. 

(Regents.) 

734. Explain how the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
came to be a powerful figure in our government. How has his 
power recently been diminished? (Princeton.) 

735. What is the name of the law-making body of the United 
States? Give three of its duties. (Regents.) 

736. Explain the committee system of the national House of 
Representatives. Name three important committees and explain 
the functions of each. (Board.) 

737. State the steps by which a bill may become a law. 

(Regents.) 

738. What is meant by initiative, referendum and recall? 

(Dartmouth.) 

739. Contrast the powers of the President in time of war and 
in time of peace. Give two reasons for the difference. 

(Regents.) 

740. Over what kinds of business does the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission exercise supervision or control? (Annapolis.) 



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741. State arguments for or against (a) giving cabinet officers 
seats in Congress without a right to vote, (&) choosing cabinet 
officers by popular vote, (c) giving territorial delegates a vote 
in the house of representatives. (?) 

742. What are the powers of the Supreme Court? What is 
the Interstate Commerce Commission? (Trinity.) 

743. Write on the United States Supreme Court with reference 
to (a) number of members, (b) method of choosing the mem- 
bers, (c) importance in our system of government. (Regents.) 

744. How may an alien become a citizen of the United States? 
How may citizenship be lost? (Regents.) 

745. In what ways may a foreigner acquire United States 
citizenship? (Board.) 

746. How does the United States govern the Philippines, 
Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii? (Board.) 

747. How can an alien become a citizen of the U. S.? Is every- 
one born outside the U. S. an alien? Is everyone born in the 
U. S. a citizen? What political offices in the U. S., if any, are 
closed to alien-born? (Board.) 

748. What is the need of political parties in a democratic gov- 
ernment? What is the difference between a political party and 
" the party machine " ? Should a voter belong to an organized 
political party or should he be an independent voter? Justify 
your answer. (Regents.) 

749. It is sometimes stated that the modern political machine 
is an outgrowth of the political methods of Andrew Jackson's 
time. Explain clearly the meaning of the italicized words and 
give facts to show the truth or the falsity of this statement. 

(Regents.) 

750. Explain the origin of our Territorial form of government, 
and describe the government of a Territory today. (Board.) 

751. Explain the method of admitting a state into the Union. 
Illustrate if possible. (Yale.) 

752. What two states have lately been admitted into the Union? 
Trace the steps by which a territory usually attains statehood. 

(Board.) 

753. Show how the relations between state and local govern- 
ments differ from the relations between state and national 
governments. (Regents.) 

754. Why are the forms of state government generally similar, 
and the forms of local government various, in the United States? 

(Board.) 

755. Mention four problems of state government. Explain how 
the state solves tico of these problems. (Regents.) 



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756. (1) Describe the different types of local government in 
the United States. (2) What are the qualifications for voters 
in your own State? (Name the State.) (3) What is the method 
by which candidates for the principal offices in your State are 
nominated? (4) How is the legislature of your State made up 
and elected? (5) What powers may the governor of your State 
exercise? (Trinity.) 

757. Into what three departments is state government divided? 
Mention a duty in each department performed by the governor. 

(Regents.) 

758. In what respects do state governments resemble the fed- 
eral government? In what respects do they differ from it? 

(California.) 

759. " The judges of the state courts should be appointed for 
life by the governor." Give two arguments for and two argu- 
ments against this statement. (Regents.) 

760. State the chief points in similarity and contrast between 
the systems of local government in New England and the North- 
western States. (Harvard.) 

761. "There is no denying*," says Mr. Bryce, "that the govern- 
ment of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United 
States." Explain this statement, and mention a proposed rem- 
edy just now much discussed. (Board.) 

762. Compare the methods which the United States has em- 
ployed («) for the government of territory which has been con- 
tiguous and (&) for that which has been separated from her by 
the seas, and account for the differences. (Board.) 

763. Mention (a) three rights or privileges that the individual 
has under our system of government, (h) three obligations or 
duties of the individual to the government. Why is it for the 
general good, as well as for the good of the individual, to have 
a system of free public schools? (Regents.) 

764. Give a list of the chief natural resources or of the chief 
industrial activities of the region in which you live. How have 
they influenced the life of your community? (Regents.)* 

765. What is a community? Name a community about which 
you have some knowledge. (Regents.) 

766. What services does your local government render to you 
or to your family? (Regents.) 

767. Show that each member of a community has a personal 
responsibility for its welfare. Support your answer by refer- 
ences to your home, school, city, village or town. (Regents.) 

768. Mention three ways in which a citizen may contribute to 
the welfare of his community. (Regents.) 



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769. Show how an injury to one person may be an injury to 
the whole community. (Regents.) 

770. Mention three problems that a community has to solve in 
taking- care of the health of its citizens. Show how two of these 
problems are solved. (Regents.) 

771. Tell in some detail what your city or community has done 
or ought to do for the Americanization of its foreign born resi- 
dents. (Regents.) 

772. Explain four results that "Americanization" work seeks 
to accomplish. (Regents.) 

773. Make a list of five important features for which the com- 
munity is responsible, to be considered in deciding whether a 
house is desirable or undesirable as a residence. (Regents.) 

774. State five matters controlled by your local government. 
Show how your local community controls two of these matters. 

(Regents.) 

775. Tell four of the things your city or community is doing 
for the physical, mental and moral welfare of its citizens. 

(Regents.) 

776. Name six problems that the government of your com- 
munity has to solve. Show what steps are being taken to solve 
each of three of these problems. (Regents.) 

777. How does the life of the farmer differ from the life of 
the city man with respect to (a) food, (o) communication, (c) 
education, (d) recreation? (Regents.) 

778. What provision does the city or state make for each of 
four of the following: (a) protection of public health, (&) 
public recreation, (c) good roads, (d) education, (e) prevention 
of poverty? (Regents.) 

779. Compare the duties of the board of aldermen or of the 
common council of a municipality under the usual system of 
city government with those of a commission under the commis- 
sion plan. (Regents.) 

780. Explain the purpose and the operation of a direct pri- 
mary law. (Regents.) 

781. Discuss as fully as you can one of the following topics: 
(a) commission government, (o) direct primaries, (c) the past 
and the future of conservation in the United States. (Regents.) 

782. Write arguments for or against strikes as a means of bet- 
tering the conditions of labor. (Regents.) 

783. Discuss as fully as you can two of the following : the short 
ballot, municipal home rule, city planning, a state budget. 

(Regents.) 



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784. Compare, in at least jour respects, pioneer home life in 
colonial days with your home life of today. (Regents.) 

785. Give three arguments for a college education. (Regents.) 

786. Give tico reasons why education is needed for good citizen- 
ship. Mention three opportunities for obtaining an education 
offered by the state or by the local community. (Regents.) 

787. Why is the careful choice of a vocation important to (a) 
the individual, (b) the community? (Regents.) 

788. " An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." 
Show how a community may prove the truth of this statement 
with reference to its water supply. (Regents.) 

789. What is done to safeguard our food supply by (a) local 
inspection, (h) the federal government? (Regents.) 

790. Give two reasons for recreation and show why govern- 
ment should be interested in it. (Regents.) 

791. Justify the expenditure of public money for highway con- 
struction as a benefit to (a) the farmer, (&) the city dweller. 

(Regents.) 

792. State three advantages that a community may gain by 
beautifying its surroundings. (Regents.) 

793. Give arguments for or against restricting the vote to 
those who can read and write the English language. (Regents.) 

794. Which foim of government do you consider the better 
for a city, the mayor-council type or the commission plan? 
Give at least two reasons. (Regents.) 

795. State two causes of dependency. Mention an advantage 
of caring for a dependent in (a) his own home, (o) a public 
institution. (Regents.) 

796. Write on the organization and the work of the State 
Constabulary. (Regents.) 

797. Show how games played fairly are a preparation for good 
citizenship. (Regents.) 

798. Name (a) a great project carried on by the national gov- 
ernment to assist transportation, (6) one carried on by the state 
for this purpose. Mention two ways in which the local com- 
munity assists transportation. Discuss one of these ways. 

(Regents.) 

799. Define five of the following terms relating to our courts : 
grand jury, trial jury, indictment, defendant, plaintiff, civil case, 
criminal case, verdict. (Regents.) 

800. State two arguments against child labor. (Regents.) 



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